Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...
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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...
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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...
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Reducere. From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illustrator Don Tate comes the highly anticipated and remarkable, little-known story of William Still, kn...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empo...
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...
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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...
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Reducere. Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsylvania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, al...
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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. 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 ...
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Reducere. The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and ...
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Reducere. The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Rail...
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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...
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Reducere. As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a b...
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Reducere. DescriptionSex, Drugs, and False Eyelashes--Surviving an encounter with a gun-wielding lesbian, a car chase by a jealous stranger, and being drowne...
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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...
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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...
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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...
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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...
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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then keep reading...The Underground Railroad wasn't underground. Nor w...
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Reducere. In 1849, Virginia began a bold railroad expansion toward the Ohio River and its lucrative trade connections. The project's plan covered 423 miles a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Reducere. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bul...
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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. Because of its clandestine nature, much of the history of the Underground Railroad remains shrouded in secrecy--so much so that some historians hav...
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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...
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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...