Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad, Paperback - Jacqueline L. Tobin

Reducere. The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and ...

Reducere. Between 1830 and 1860, thousands of Southern slaves escaped to the North and Canada by way of the "underground railroad." Neither underground nor a...

It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is keeping a secret. Their Ohio home is a station on the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places...

Reducere. Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Written in graphic-novel format.

Polly was used to people coming and going at her house at all times of the night because her family ran an Underground Railroad station. Strangely,...

Reducere. First published in 1872, "The Underground Railroad" is the fascinating first-hand account of hundreds of slaves and their escape to freedom by Will...

Reducere. Ever wonder what the angler downstream of you catching fish in water you just fished is doing differently from you? Master angler and author Duane ...

Reducere. Beyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad. From th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empo...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gwendolyn HooksNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 193 x 18Cover type: Paperback ...

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DescriptionAva, Ellie, and Griffin never had a teacher like Miss Snoddy ... not even close They are in awe of her amazing stories about our country...

Reducere. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bul...

Reducere. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence,...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a dar...

Reducere. Same great content, now with new cover. Ever feel stuck? That no matter how much you wish otherwise, how hard you try and pray and regret and resol...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...

Reducere. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winni...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016. 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime'( Guardian). '...

Reducere. Receive Wise Guidance from Your Mom -- Mother Nature Albert Einstein said, "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."...

Reducere. The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. Th...

Reducere. This volume uses the most current research to provide a controversial, yet informative examination of the role of quilts in the era of slavery and ...

Reducere. William Still's encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.

Reducere. Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad, Hardcover

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

Reducere. The Billionaires Secret is the story of Herb, a young retired investment banker, who meets Marvin, an octogenarian under-the-radar billionaire and ...

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist m...

Reducere. New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hu...

Reducere. Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rock...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

Reducere. Illus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...

Reducere. As her biographer Sarah H. Bradford mentions, Harriet Tubman is at par with biggest names like Jeanne D'Arc, Grace Darling, and Florence Nightingal...

Reducere. Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians hav...

Reducere. In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slave...

Reducere. Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, al...

Reducere. DescriptionTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master f...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

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Reducere. DescriptionMany of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives an...

Reducere. Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana ...

Reducere. DescriptionTwelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be grateful for as a slave: having her family together. But when the master f...