The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom - Kathleen G. Velsor

DescriptionFrom the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an im...

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...

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. 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. 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. From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes the highly anticipated and remarkable, little-known story of William Still, kn...

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

Reducere. Christopher Award-winning author Jerdine Nolen imagines a young woman's journey from slavery to freedom in this intimate and powerful novel that wa...

Reducere. Imagine leaving everything you've ever known--your friends, family, and home--to travel along roads you've never seen before, getting help from peo...

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. This children's book will help inspire a sense of wonder and a love of nature through enchanting images and fun-to-read rhyming prose. The book fol...

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

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

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. 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...

Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jama...

Reducere. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name, was chartered in 1834 for the purpose...

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. DescriptionFrom the foreword..Brad Kolodny provides an important history, inventory, and photo archive of the synagogues of Long Island. He has ide...

Reducere. No one knows where the term ``Underground Railroad ``came from--there were no trains or tracks, only ``conductors`` who helped escaping slaves to f...

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 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

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

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

Reducere. The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harve...

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. 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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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

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. 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. 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 ...

The lead carousel horse on a glittering carousel at a Jersey Shore Amusement Park comes to life during a summer storm. Stepping off of the carousel...

Reducere. During the war's worst fighting in 2006 and 2007, a handful of Iraqi interpreters put their lives on the line to help American troops. Families thr...