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Ackerman, Karen. 1990. The Tin Heart. New York: Atheneum. Picture book. Fictional account of two girls who are close friends despite living on opposite banks of the Ohio River. Their fathers' differences over the Civil War are heightened by the Yankee father's practice of smuggling escaped slaves north.

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Adler, David. 1992. A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman. New York: Holiday House. Biography of Harriet Tubman. Pictures; text.

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Adler, David. 1993. A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass. New York: Holiday House. Biography of Frederick Douglass, which includes illustrations.

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Armstrong, Jennifer. 1992. Steal Away…To Freedom. New York: Scholastic. A black girl and a white girl walk from Virginia to Vermont to escape slavery. Emphasis in this book is on danger, adventure and personal relationship, less so on history.

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Arnsen, Eric (editor) 2003. The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement. February 2003. Thematic issue of Cobblestone, the history magazine Volume 24, number 2. Contains articles on the following: An overview of the Underground Railroad; History of the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts; the abolitionist movement and key figures; the significance of Ohio in helping escaping slaves; Vermont's Robinson family; the black communities of Dawn and Elgin, Canada; spirituals containing coded messages; current efforts to end enslavement; a preview of the new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati; also includes a list of supplemental resources. In addition to the February issue, Cobblestone has also published the following issues: Feb. 1981 with Harriet Tubman as the focus; Feb. 1989 with Frederick Douglass as the focus; and Feb. 1993 with the AntiSlavery Movement as the focus. Each issue has related articles as well. For the slightly younger reader, the same publisher has produced Dig (Jan/Feb 2003, Vol. 5 (1) called "Teaching the Underground Railroad" from an archeological slant.

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Archer, Jules. 1993. They had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Fredrick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. New York: Putnam. Four biographies woven into an encapsulated history of the civil rights struggle in the United States.

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Ayeres, Katherine. 1998. North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Delacorte. Set in Ohio, this novel features sixteen-year-old Lucy, who helps her family moving slaves along the Underground Railroad. In the course of one such episode she faces a personal crisis as well as danger from outside. The story is told through diary entries.

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Averes, Katherine. 2001. Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Delacorte. Written as a companion to North by Night, this novel is told through the eyes of Will Spencer, Lucy's brother, who agrees to leave Ohio for the south to steal a friend's brothers out of slavery.

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Bains, Rae. 1982. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates. Simple text and black and white sketches relate Tubman's brief life.

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Banks, Sara. 1999. Abraham's Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg. New York: Atheneum. Features the meeting both before and during the battle of a free black ex-slave and a naïve young Confederate soldier.

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Barboza, Steven. 1994. Door of No Return: The Legend of Goree Island. New York: Putnam. Photos and text show Goree Island as it is today as well as when it was the infamous holding place for newly captured African slaves awaiting transport to America.

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Barrett, Tracy. 1993. Nat Turner and the Slave Revolt. Riverside, NJ: Millbrook Press. Biography that illustrates that enslaved people actively resisted and organized rebellions.

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Beaty, Patricia, 1991. Jayhawker. New York: Morrow. The protagonist is a Kansas abolitionist, recruited into the Union Army when slaveholders kill his father. Quantrill, Wild Bill Hickock and Jesse James make appearances. Good historical fiction writer.

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Beaty, Patricia. 1992. Who Comes with Cannons? New York: Morrow. Features Truth Hopkins, Quaker abolitionist who is orphaned and sent to live with relatives in North Carolina. She becomes involved in aiding slaves along the Underground Railroad.

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Bentley, Judith. 1997. Dear Friend: Thomas Garrett and William Still. New York: Putnam. Garrett, operator of eastern line of the UGRR, and Still, Philadelphia free black, share their activities and friendship through their correspondence.

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Bial, Raymond. 1995. The Underground Railroad. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Photo; text. The book focuses on ways and routes that escaped enslaved people used. A chronology and bibliography are included.

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Bial, Raymond. 1997. The Strength of These Arms: Life in the Slave Quarters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Photos; text. Weaves the overall history of slavery with slaves' everyday life, emphasizing how aspects of family life and African heritage were preserved.

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Bolotin, Norman. 2002. Civil War A to Z. New York: Dulton. With extensive black and white photos and drawings, this book includes many entries of direct relevance-abolitionists, Douglass, Fugitive slave law, Garrison, Howe, Tuth, Tubman-but, curiously, not for the Underground Railroad.

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Branch, Muriel. 1995. The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People. New York: Putnam. The term "Gullah" refers to the culture and language of a group of African Americans who live along the coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida.

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Branch, Muriel. 1998. Juneteenth: Freedom Day. New York: Dutton. Photos; text. Relates the history of Juneteenth as well as how it is celebrated today.

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Brill, Marlene. 1993. Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Book. Based on a true story. Allen Jay, an eleven-year old Quaker living in Ohio, learns about the dangers of life in America as he and his family shelter slaves enroute to Canada.

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Bunting, Eve. 1996. The Blue and the Gray. New York: Scholastic. Pictures; text. Story of two contemporary boys, one black, one white, told in free verse as the white boy's father builds a house on a former Civil War battlefield. Bunting consistently tackles tough issues for children and ends up with artistic, not preachy, books.

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Buchmaster, Henrietta. 1958. Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Crowell. The Major people, places, and events connected with the Underground Railroad.

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Carbone, Lisa. 1998. Stealing Freedom. New York: Knopf. Based on the true story of Ann Maria Weems, emphasizing escape from slavery, travel on the Underground Railroad, and eventual arrival in Canada. Author's note clarifies historical and fictional elements.

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Chadwick, Burke. 1999. Traveling the Underground Railroad. Seacaucus, NJ: Citadel Press. Contains a useful selection of thumbnail sketches of people and buildings important to the Underground Railroad, as well as an overall history of the UGRR.

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Chambers, Veronica. 1998. Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace. Pictures; text. With powerful, expressive paintings by Paul Lee, this book briefly relates the Amistad events.

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Clinton, Catherine. 1999. Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Scholastic. There are separate chapters for pre-war, post-war, and year-by-year in between. Several pages are devoted to history and politics of slavery.

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Collier, James and Christopher. 1981. Jump Ship to Freedom. New York: Delacorte. By the authors of My Brother Sam is Dead, this novel is based on a true story, focusing on a fourteen-year-old black boy who should be freed at the end of the Revolutionary War by virtue of his now-dead father's military service. He is sold into slavery in the West Indies and must scheme to free himself and his mother.

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Collier, James and Christopher. 2000. Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War. Tarrytown, New York: Benchmark Books. Photographs. Good "prelude" book which emphasizes political history as opposed to social or cultural events.

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Collier, James and Christopher. 1983. War Comes to Willy Freeman. New York: Delacorte. Although set in Revolutionary War New York City, this book focuses on similar issues as, and interweaves its story with Jump Ship to Freedom. Both books include addendum chapters addressing "how much of this book is true?".

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Collier, James and Christopher. 1994. With Every Drop of Blood. New York: Delacorte Press. A Virginia white teen delivering supplies to Confederate army is captured by a runaway slave. An unlikely alliance ensues; big questions about war, the Civil War, slavery arise.

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Connell, Kate. 1993. Tales from the Underground Railroad. Austin, TX: Steck Vaughn. Five chapters focus on stories related to the escapes of William Minnis and William Still.

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Cooper, Michael. 2001. Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers. New York: Clarion. Prints; photographs. Provides a history of the music that reflected the hopes and despairs of slavery

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Cooper, Michael 1994. From Slave to Civil War Hero: The Life and Times of Robert Smalls. New York: Lodestar Books. Biography of Robert Smalls, who escaped from the port of Charleston in a Confederate boat.

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Cox, Clinton. 1991. Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. New York: Scholastic. Movie connection (Glory). The 54th regiment was the first colored regiment and this well-documented book documents the difficulties and inequalities faced by the courageous soldiers in that division. CBS/NCSS Notable Children's Trade Book in the field of social studies.

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Damon, Duane. 1996. When this Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Home Front. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner. Historical fiction. Chapter 2 "Reap the Whirlwind" is a good presentation of slavery and attitudes in the North and South.

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Davis, Ossie. 1978. Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass. New York: Penguin. This is written as a play for a cast of seven young actors written by the actor Ossie Davis.

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Diouf, Sylvanie. 2001. Growing up in Slavery. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, Inc. Text; illustrations; photographs. Focuses on the lives of children in slavery. Good list of resources.

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Dosier, Susan. 2000. Civil War Cooking: The Confederacy. Mankato, MN: Blue Earth Books. Includes recipes developed by slaves.

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Draper, Sharon. 1996. Lost in the Tunnel of Time from the Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs series. East Orange, NJ: Just Us Books. Local setting and local author. Written by the winner of the National Teacher of the Year. Four African American friends try to explore the tunnels of the Underground Railroad.

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Ecenbarger, William. 2000. Walkin' the Line: A Journey From Past to Present Along the Mason-Dixon. New York: M. Evans and Company. Although this history touches on much more than connections to the Underground Railroad, the significance of the Mason-Dixon line in U.S. "race history" makes this book interesting background reading.

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Edwards, Pamela. 1997. Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad. New York: Harper Collins. Pictures; text. Told from the perspective of animals along the trail, the story relates the escape of a barefoot (runaway slave) and pursuit of the heavy boots. Emphasizes the advantages of being in tune with nature's signals.

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Egger-Bovet, Howard. 1998. Brown Paper School US Kids History: Book of the American Civil War. Boston: Little Brown and Company. One of a series of intriguing efforts to make history come alive. Uses poetry and fiction alongside fact, suggests activities and projects, stresses the fun of learning history over the dryness. Significant texts and activities on blacks during the Civil War.

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Elish, Dan. 1993. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press. Pictures; text. Many photos, line drawings, and paintings illustrate this brief biography.

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Erickson, Paul. 1997. Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853. New York: Putnam. Pictures; text. A visit to a plantation takes readers through daily life, including leisure hours, attitudes about slavery, slave meetings, food, clothing, etc.

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Erdosh, George. 1997. Food and Recipes of the Civil War. NY: Rosen Publishing Group. Includes recipes developed by slaves

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Evitts, William J. 1985. Captive Bodies, Free Spirits: The Story of Southern Slavery. New York: Julian Messner (div. of Simon and Schuster). Photographs; illustrations. Contains one chapter devoted specifically to UGRR within an overall history of slavery in the southern United States.

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Feelings, Tom. 1995. The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo. In essence, a wordless art folio. Powerful and dramatic. Includes an essay by distinguished African American scholar, activist and writer John Henrik Clarke.

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Ferris, Jeri. 1988. Go Free or Die: A Story about Harriet Tubman. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Book.

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Ferris, Jeri. 1988. Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Book.

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Forrester, Sandra. 1997. My Home is Over Jordan. New York: Penguin. Relates a fictional account of a newly freed family trying to survive in a North Carolina town.

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Forrester, Sandra. 1993. Sound the Jubilee. New York: Penguin. Maddie Henry's family featured in My Home is Over Jordan, at the time of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Fox, Paula. 1973. The Slave Dancer. New York: Bantam. The story of a thirteen-year-old boy who is kidnapped and taken onboard a slave ship. 1978 Newbery Medal winner.

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Fradin, Dennis. 2000. Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves. New York: Clarion. Tells the stories of twelve slaves, including Margaret Garner, the Crafts, Harriet Tubman, and William Wells Brown.

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Fradin, Dennis. 2001. My Family Shall Be Free: The Life of Peter Still. New York: Harper Collins. True story of a man who escapes bondage as an adult, finds his mother and siblings in the north, and then returns to the South to free his own wife and children.

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Freedman, Florence. 1971. Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of William and Ellen Craft, Fugitive Slaves. New York: Scholastic. True story of a fugitive slave couple that travel the road to freedom in disguise-the wife as a slave master and the husband as the slave.

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Freedman, Russell. 1987. Lincoln: A Photo Biography. New York: Clarion. Two chapters in particular-"Half Slave and Half Free" (4) and "Emancipation" (5) are relevant. 1988 Newbery Medal winner.

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Fritz, Jean. 1944. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers. New York: Penguin. The Cincinnati connection, a fine biographer for young people, and the abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, all are reasons to use this book.

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Gayle, Sharon Shavers. 1999. Escape! A Story of the Underground Railroad. Norwalk, CT: Trudy Corporation. Pictures; text. Monitored by Smithsonian staff for historical accuracy, this story features a young girl who finds herself transported into the past from a school field trip to an escape on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s.

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Gorrell, Gena. 1996. North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Delacorte. The most comprehensive coverage for young readers. Its eleven chapters and 150 pages also provide an unusual perspective-life for escaping blacks once they reached Canada.

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Greene, Meg. 1999. Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner. Pictures; text. Focuses on everyday life as well as the "big picture" events of slavery in the Americas.

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Greenwood, Barbara. 1998. The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad. Toronto and Buffalo: Kids Can Press. Historically accurate fictional account of an escaping eleven-year old who reaches her "last safe house" in St. Catherines, Canada, and recounts her story for host family. One day, a slave-catcher appears at the door.

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Guccione, Leslie. 1995. Come Morning. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Book. Fictional account of free black in Delaware who farms but also conducts on the UGRR. When he is captured, his son takes over.

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Hakim, Joy. 1994. A History of Us: War, Terrible War. New York: Oxford University Press. Maps; archival photographs; drawings. Contains several chapters of interest, in particular, chapters each on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Hamilton, Virginia. 1988. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave. New York: Knopf. Biography of man who escaped to Boston out of slavery in Virginia, was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law, and became cause celebre as riots and legal battles broke out. Hamilton is from Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear. New York: Knopf. One of our very best writers. Modern day kids discover an underground railroad connection in old house. Set in Hamilton's Yellow Springs home.

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Hamilton, Virginia. 1985. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. New York: Knopf. Includes a section on stories about escaping slaves.

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Hamilton, Virginia. 1993. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Knopf. Organized in three sections, "Slavery in America", Running Away" and "Exodus to Freedom", this book collects documents, brief biographies, event summaries and extended definitions in a compelling, brief chronology of African Americans from the 1600s to the late 1800s.

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Hansen, Joyce. 1994. The Captive. New York: Scholastic. This novel is loosely based on the experiences of Olaudah Equiano, who was enslaved in Massachusetts and, in time, escaped to tell his story.

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Hansen, Joyce. 1986. Which Way Freedom? New York: Walker Publishing. Historical fiction that emphasizes the role of escaped slaves in fighting for the Union during the Civil War.

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Hansen, Joyce. 1998. Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground. New York: Henry Holt. Focuses on an interesting related story-the discovery and excavation of an African burial ground from Colonial times, and the history of that site.

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Hansen, Joyce. 1997. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865. New York: Scholastic. Part of Scholastic's fine Dear America series of fictional diaries meant to convey historically accurate information. This one focuses on black life immediately following the end of the Civil War.

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Haskins, Jim. 1993. Get On Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Scholastic. Author tells about Harriet Tubman and other people who risked their lives on the Underground Railroad.

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Haskins, James. 1999. Bound For America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World. [Illustrated by Floyd Cooper.] New York: Morrow. Pictures; text. Provides succinct essays on several topics about slavery in the Americas, as well as interesting essays on what both Europe and Africa were like in 1492.

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Heinricks, Ann. 2001. The Underground Railroad. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books. Chapter book with many illustrations and photos. Simple text with many aids, including glossary, timeline and resource list.

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Hendrickson, Ann-Marie. 1995. Nat Turner: Rebel Slave. New York: Chelsea House. Part of Chelsea House's Junior World Biographies series. (also of interest: Frederick Douglass, 1993; Harriet Tubman, 1992; Sojourner Truth, 1992.)

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Hesse, Karen. 1999. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware 1861. New York: Scholastic. Part of Scholastic's Dear America series of fictional but historically accurate diaries. While the UGRR and slavery are only a part of this story, the perspective is interesting since Delaware was officially a slave state, but Delawareans fought overwhelmingly for the North, the great majority of blacks were free in Delaware, and many sites in Delaware were active UGRR stops.

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Hooks, William. 1990. The Ballad of Belle Dorcas. [Illustrated by Jerry Pinckney.] New York: Knopf. Based on a conjure tale, this story introduces the concept of "free issue" blacks. Pivot of the story is a free-issue girl's love for a slave boy, over all of the free-issue boys courting her. A conjure woman's spell keeps them together in a unique way.

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Hopkinson, Deborah. 1993. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Knopf. Pictures; text. Fictional account of a girl who makes a quilt outlining the path to freedom, then eventually escapes. Companion volume: Under the Quiet of Night.

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Hopkinson, Deborah. 2001. Under the Quiet of Night. New York: Atheneum. Pictures; text. Composed as a companion book to Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Tells the story of a family's escape through the eyes and words of a young girl.

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Houston, Gloria. 1998. Bright Freedom's Song: A Story of the Underground Railroad. San Diego: Harcourt. Focuses on a North Carolina family helping slaves escape. Fourteen-year-old girl must help out when she father becomes ill.

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Hudson, J. Blaine. 2002. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderlands. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Presents several interesting brief portraits of key people in the Underground Railroad, both fugitives and friends. Describes the main corridors through Kentucky and North.

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Hudson, Wade and Cheryl. 1995. How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children. New York: Scholastic. Includes many spirituals and traditional songs from slave times and with coded lyrics.

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Hurmence, Belinda. 1982. A Girl Called Boy. New York: Clarion. A time-travel story (don't shy away-remember The Devil's Arithmetic?) of a contemporary girl Blanche Overtha Yancey ("Boy" for short) who gets lost in the North Carolina mountains and discovers the world of 1850's slave catchers, plantation owners, and her ancestors.

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Hurmence, Belinda (editor) 1989. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher. The author chose twenty-seven narratives from a total of 284 South Carolina narratives collected as a part of the Library of Congress's Federal Writers Project under the Works Progress Administration. She aimed for a geographic and gender balance, and to represent direct experience of those who were ten years old or older at the time of interviews.

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Hurmence, Belinda (editor) 1984. My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery. (North Carolina narratives) Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher. (1406 Plaza Drive, Winston Salem, NC 27103). Companion volume to Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember.

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Hurmence, Belinda (editor) . 1997. Slavery Time When I Was Chillun. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Narratives of twelve slaves reminiscing on their childhood in slavery and eventual emancipation. All were selected from the Depression-era Library of Congress/Federal Writers Project collection.

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Jacob, Helen Pierce. 1978. The Diary of the Strawbridge Place. New York: Atheneum. Historical fiction about a Quaker family who operate a UGRR station in Ashtabula, Ohio, helping escapees to Canada. Told through the eyes of a young teen girl, Victory. Also by the same author: The Secret of the Strawbridge Place.

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January, Brendan. 1997. The Emancipation Proclamation. New York: Grolier Children's Press. A history and timeline of this important document.

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January, Brendan. 1999. Reconstruction. New York: Grolier Children's Press. History of the immediate aftermath of the Civil War with particular attention to the effects on blacks.

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Johnson, Lois Walfrid. 1996. The Riverboat Adventures (Escape into the Night, Race for Freedom, and Midnight Rescue). Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House. Historical fiction set in the Midwest featuring pro-abolition whites helping slaves escape the South.

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Kallen, Stuart. 2000. Life on the Underground Railroad. San Diego: Lucent Books. Text; illustrations. Written by a man who once lived in a house on the Underground Railroad network, this text focuses on every day life of slaves, both on plantations and on the run, and those who helped escaping slaves. Part of The Way People Live series in different time periods and circumstances.

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Katz, William. 1990. Breaking the Chains: African-American Slave Resistance. New York: MacMillan. Gives a history of slave revolt, resistance and rebellion from the slave's point of view.

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Katz, William, Loren. 1999. Black Pioneers: An Untold Story. New York: Atheneum. The first eight (of fifteen) chapters have particular local interest, focusing on the Northwest Territories, African/Native American relationships, John Parker, Henry Bibb, Cincinnati's role in the UGRR, and other issues and events in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. The second half of the book moves westward.

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Keenan, Sheila. 1995. Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Freedom Fighter. New York: Scholastic. Pictures; photo-text.

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Kent, Barbara. 1996. African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies. New York: Grolier Children's Press. History from 1619 through the Revolutionary War.

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Kent, Zachary. 1994. The Civil War: A House Divided. Hillside, NJ: Enslow Publishers. Pages twelve to nineteen provide a succinct account of the role of slavery in the buildup to war.

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Kerby, Mona. 1994. Frederick Douglass. New York: Franklin Watts. A standard biography.

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Krass, Peter. 1988. Sojourner Truth: Antislavery Activist. New York: Chelsea House. Includes an essay by Coretta Scott King.

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Leacock, Elspeth and Buckley, Susan. 2001. Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. Among several two-page spreads featuring map, text and illustrations, "Big Joe Bailey Takes the Underground Railroad" is most relevant, but "The Journey of Venture Smith" (middle passage) and "A Civil War Journey" are of related interest.

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Lester, Julius. 1998. From Slave Ship to Freedom Road. New York: Penguin. Pictures; text. Several "imagination exercises" are inserted within the narrative history. An intellectually and morally challenging book.

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Lester, Julius. 1987. The Tales of Uncle Remus. New York: Penguin. Interesting to use to contrast Lester's contemporary black-dialect renderings with Joel Chandler Harris' nearly impenetrable 1800s dialect renderings.

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Lester, Julius. 1968 and 1998. To Be a Slave. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin. Accompanied by Tom Feelings' paintings. This Newbery Honor Book is a collection of six stories that are reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves describing their experiences.

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Levine, Ellen. 1988. …If you Traveled on the Underground Railroad. New York: Scholastic. Pictures; text. In question/answer format, readers are introduced to what the underground railroad was and how it was used between 1830 and 1860 to help slaves in America escape to the North

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Lyons, Mary. 1993. Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers. New York: Alladin Library. Harriet Powers was born into slavery in 1837, and her works with quilts have survived.

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Lutz, Norma Jean. 2000. Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Author. New York: Chelsea House. Biography plus glossary, chronology, civil war timeline.

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Lutz, Norma Jean. 2001. Harriet Tubman: Leader of the Underground Railroad. New York: Chelsea House. Biography plus glossary, chronology, civil war timeline.

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Lutz, Norma Jean. 2001. Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Preacher. New York: Chelsea House.

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Lyons, Mary. 1992. Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs. New York: Scribners. For contrast or companion reading, see Jacobs, Harriet. (1987) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Lyons, Mary. 1997. The Poison Place. New York: Atheneum. Fictionalized account of former slave's life in post-revolution Philadelphia as slave/servant to Charles Wilson Peale, famous hero of the revolution

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Marrin, Albert. 1997. Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. New York: Dutton. Chapter 2 "The Peculiar Institution" is important, but there is frequent mention of Lincoln and slavery throughout.

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Marston, Hope. 1995. Isaac Johnson: From Slave to Stonecutter. New York: Penguin. Biography of the author of Slavery Days in Old Kentucky, following Johnson from when he was sold at seven, through his escape, joining the Union army, and eventual settling in Canada to become a prominent stonecutter.

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McClard, Megan. 1991. Harriet Tubman: Slavery and the Underground Railroad. New York: Chelsea House. Includes an essay by Henry Steele Commager, an historian whose prolific writing career was instrumental in shaping modern study of American history

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McCurdy, Michael (editor). 1994. Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Knopf. McCurdy, a noted illustrator, has shortened Douglass's Narrative of the Life… to sixty-one pages. The book also includes details on how Douglass effected his escape (withheld by Douglass to protect other escaping slaves).

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McCusker, Paul. 1996. Dark Passage and Freedom Run. Colorado Springs, CO: Focus on the Family. Part of the Adventures in Odyssey series, these two fantasy novels feature pre-teens transported back to the Civil War era to fend for themselves on the Underground Railroad.

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McGill, Alice. 1999. Molly Bannaky. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.The story of an indentured English servant who came to America and, later in life, married a slave. Their grandson was Benjamin Banneker, noted mathematician, astronomer, writer, and best known as the first African American scientist.

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McKissack, Patricia. 1997. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl. New York: Scholastic. Part of Scholastic's Dear America series, this book includes journal entries from a slave on a Virginia plantation in 1859, with historical notes.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 1996. Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts. New York: Scholastic. A good introduction, overview chapter, and nine specific revolt stories. Chapters on the Maroons and Toussaint L'Overture make this book truly "American" not just U.S.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 2003. Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. New York: Scholastic. Based on the WPA slave narratives, the chapters recount how and when slaves heard they were free.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 1999. Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African American Whalers. New York: Scholastic. Little-known part of history about escaped slaves who became whalers and helped in the Underground Railroad.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 1991. Frederick Douglass: Leader Against Slavery. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. Chapter book.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 1992. Sojourner Truth: A Voice for Freedom. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. Chapter book. Among other reasons for reading about Sojourner Truth is that she was born a slave in New York state, and having not been freed by her master in the law of July 4, 1827, she ran away.

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McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. 1994. Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters. New York: Scholastic. Fictionalized account of Christmas in the slave quarters and in the plantation house in the 1850s. Excellent bibliography and endnotes.

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McLoone, Margo. 1997. Harriet Tubman. Manhato, MN: Capstone Press. Photos; illustrations.

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McMullan, Kate. 1997. The Story of Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Publishing. (originally published 1991 as a Dell Yearling book.)

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Meadows, James. 2002. Slavery: The Struggle for Freedom. Chanhassen, MN: The Child's World. Text; photos; illustrations. Part of the Journey to Freedom series. Includes timeline, glossary, and list of websites.

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Medearis, Angela. 1995. The Freedom Riddle. New York: Penguin. Pictures; text. Retelling of a story told to William Faulkner. A different type of trickster tale.

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Meltzer, Milton. 1989. Voices From the Civil War: A Documentary History of the Great War. New York: Crowell. See especially chapter two, "A Filthy Enactment: I Will Not Obey It" on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law; chapter four, (John Brown); six, "A Visit to a Slave Plantation"; ten, "They Ran to Freedom" (The Underground Railroad); chapter fourteen on the Emancipation Proclamation; and chapter fifteen on black Union soldiers. The entire book consists of documentary excerpts plus Meltzer's commentary.

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Meltzer, Milton. 1996. Frederick Douglass: In His Own Words. New York: Harcourt Brace. Collection of short excerpts from the writings of Frederick Douglass. Illustrations help comprehension of Douglass's complex words.

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Mettger, Zak. 1994. Till Victory is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War. New York: Penguin. Photos; text. History of black regiments in the Civil War, including the most famous regiment from Massachusetts.

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Miller, William. 1995. Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery. New York: Lee and Low Books. Interesting illustrations and writing gives students insight into Frederick Douglass

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Monjo, F.N. 1970. The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Harper and Row. Chapter book. A young boy helps an escaping slave family follow the "drinking gourd" (Big Dipper) along the Underground Railroad to freedom.

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Myers, Walter Dean. 1998. Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom. New York: Penguin. Documents the captives' struggle for freedom through historic photographs, sketches, newspaper accounts, and correspondence.

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Myers, Walter Dean. 1994. The Glory Field. New York: Scholastic. Sort of a scaled-back Roots, the book follows several generations from Sierra Leone in 1753 to New York in 1994, focusing on a young person's life at each stop. Good for small-group reading of sections.

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Myers, Walter Dean. 1991. Now is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom. New York: Scholastic. From middle passage to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Myers, Walter Dean. 1995. One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album. New York: Harcourt. Photo essays of black America, from slaves to baseball players, formal portraits to candid photos, documenting the African American experience from captivity to freedom. The book celebrates the courageous achievements of men and women whose defiant rejection of inequality and subjugation put their own lives at risk.

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National Park Service, 1998. Underground Railroad. Washington, DC: Division of Publications, National Park Service. Contains three useful, succinct essays on the myths and realities of the Underground Railroad; a history of slavery in America; and a history of the Underground Railroad. Also contains references for further reading.

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Neshama, Rivvy. 2001. Nat Turner and the Virginia Slave Revolt. Chanhassen, MN: Child's World, Inc. Pictures; text. Part of the publisher's Journey to Freedom series, which also includes books on Tubman, Truth, Douglass, Emancipation Proclamation, and African Americans in the revolution.

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Nixon, Joan Lowry. 2000. Caesar's Story, 1759. New York: Delacorte. Published for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Shows slave life in pre-revolution Virginia.

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Nolan, Jerdine. 2000. Big Jabe. New York: Morrow. Picture book. A new tall tale, with elements of Moses and John Henry, during slavery times. The protagonist leads slaves away on the UGRR.

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Nordam, Robert. 2001. The Secret Road. New York: Holiday House. Novel about a young teen who leaves her parents' plantation in the South to summer with a Quaker aunt and uncle in the North, discovers she's in an Underground Railroad station, and begins to help escaping slaves.

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O'Dell, Scott. 1989. My Name is Not Angelique. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Slave rebellion on a Caribbean island, based on historical realities. O'Dell is one of the finest writers of historical fiction for young adults.

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Ofosu-Appiach, L.H. 1993. People in Bondage: African Slavery Since the 15th Century. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Press. History of the enslavement of Africans in different places and in different cultures, how it happened, and what it was like to be a slave.

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Palmer, Colin. 1995. The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas, 1502-1617. (The Young Oxford History of African Americans, Vol. 1). Oxford University Press. Interesting account of the beginnings of slavery in the Americas (Mexico, Brazil and Peru). Maps and drawing included.

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Paterson, Katherine. 1996. Jip: His Story. New York: Dutton. Excellent, fast-paced novel by one of adolescent literature's best voices. Focuses on a boy in Barre, Vermont, who only gradually discovers his African slave ancestry, and then must contend with the appearance of a slave bounty hunter.

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Patrick, Denise Lewis. 1997. Adventures of Midnight Son. New York: Henry Holt and Company. Midnight Son was a thirteen-year-old boy who escaped to Mexico and became a ranch hand. First half of book details his escape. The Longest Ride is the sequel to this book.

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Paulsen, Gary. 1993. Nightjohn. New York: Delacorte. UGRR escapee returns to teach plantation kids literacy.

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Paulsen, Gary. 1999. Sarny: A Life Remembered. New York: Delacorte. A sequel, of sorts, to Nightjohn. Sarny is now a free woman. She searches for, and finds, her sold-away children and begins a new life.

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Pearsall, Shelley. 2002. Trouble Don't Last. New York: Knopf. Set in Northern Kentucky at its beginning, this novel tells of an eleven-year old escaping with an older slave and eventually reaching Canada. The physical journey is also a journey of personal growth and discovery for the eleven-year old.

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Petry, Ann. 1955. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: Thomas Crowell. Substantial biography of this prominent figure.

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Pico, Fernando. 1991. The Red Comb. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates (Bridgewater Books). Also published in Spanish. Pictures; text. Set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, this story relates how a child and an old woman plot to help a runaway slave escape the bounty hunter. Vivid, evocative illustrations.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis. 2001. Dear Mr. President: Letters From a Slave Girl. Delray Beach, FL: Winslow. Fictional rendering of what might have transpired if President Lincoln and a slave girl had exchanged letters. An interactive web site-winslowpress.com-is intended to enhance the reading experience.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis. 1999. Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story. New York: Hyperion. Follows the lives of two slave siblings on a plantation in Virginia in 1862. Thirteen-year-old Rosco hears the call of freedom, his "silent thunder."

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Polacco, Patricia. 1994. Pink and Say. New York: Philomel. A black Union soldier saves white wounded Union soldier; both are young teens. The book is based on a true incident in the author's own family history.

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Porter, Connie. 1993. Addy's Surprise: A Christmas Story. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company Publications. Black Civil War-era heroine of the American Girl series (good historical fiction).

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Pryor, Bonnie. 2000. Joseph's Choice-1861. New York: Harper Collins. A young teen in Kentucky is conflicted between his ethics-slavery is wrong-and safety from violent Southern sympathizers

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Rappaport, Doreen. 1991. Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom. New York: Harper Collins. Short accounts of five escapes: the Crofts, Eliza, Selena and Cornelia Jacobson, Henry Brown, and Jane Johnson.

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Rappaport, Doreen. 2000. Freedom River. New York: Hyperion. Pictures; text. Story of John Parker's efforts to lead escaping slaves to Ripley, Ohio. Focus on one escape for dramatic effect.

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Rappaport, Doreen. 2002. No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. Tells the stories of eleven individuals and their resistance and rebellion.

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Ray, Delia. 1990. A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began. New York: Penguin. Several chapters provide valuable context.

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Reeder, Carolyn, 1997. Across the Lines. New York: Atheneum. Follows the lives of two fictional boys-one white, one black in 1864-1865, with particular focus on the battle at Petersburg Crater, Virginia.

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Richmond, Merle. Phyllis Wheatley, Poet. New York: Chelsea. Biography of the Revolutionary-era poet, interesting for literacy issues, women's issues, and Northern attitudes.

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Riggio, Anita. 1997. Secret Signs Along the Underground Railroad. Honedale, PA: Boyds Mills Press. Illustrated picture text of how a child using sign language and painting talent is able to pass on an important message about safe houses under the watchful eyes of slave catchers.

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Rinaldi, Ann. 1991. Wolf by the Ears. New York: Scholastic. Historical novel that closely parallels the life of Harriet Hemings, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Includes an explanation of what is documented history and what is imagined.

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Ringgold, Faith. 1992. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad. New York: Crown Publishers. Modern-day kids' fantasy of encountering the Underground Railroad.

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Robinet, Harriette. 1998. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press. Historical fiction focusing on Reconstruction era through the eyes of one family.

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Robinet, Harriette. 1995. If You Please, President Lincoln. New York: Atheneum. Focuses on a different sort of slave escape-to an island off the coast of Haiti. Historical basis, fictional rendering.

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Rockwell, Anne. 2000. Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth. New York: Knopf. Pictures; text.

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Rosen, Michael. 1995. A School for Pompey Walker. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace. Picture book. Based on a true story, this book relates how the son-in-law of a plantation owner buys and frees a slave, and accompanies him on a journey to true freedom.

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Ruby, Lois. 1994. Steal Away Home. New York: Simon and Schuster. Alternating chapters tell the story of Kansas Quakers operating a station on the Underground Railroad, and the lives of a contemporary family living in that house and discovering the skeleton of a black woman who had helped the Quakers.

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Rutberg, Becky. 1995. Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante. New York: Walker and Company. Relates the story of Mary Lincoln's friend, Lincoln's attitudes about slavery, and uses many direct quotes from Keckley's autobiography.

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Savage, Douglas. 2000. Women in the Civil War. New York: Chelsea. Part of Chelsea House's Untold History of the Civil War series, which also includes African Americans in the Civil War, and Underground Railroad in the Civil War. In this book there are several references to abolitionist thought and prominent black women.

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Sawyer, Kem Knapp. 1997. The Underground Railroad in American History. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers. Well-researched overview with accompanying timeline.

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Schomp, Virginia. 1997. He Fought for Freedom: Frederick Douglass. Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark Books. Pictures; text.

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Schotter, Rone. 2000. F is for Freedom. New York: Dorling Kindersley. Novel emphasizing that "reading is freedom."

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Schroeder, Alan. 1996. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman. New York: Penguin. Pictures; text. Historically accurate facts and fictional imagining of Tubman's girlhood. Paintings by Jerry Pinkney.

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Schwartz, Virginia Frances. 2001. If I Just Had Two Wings. Toronto: Stoddard Kids. A novel told through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old escaping from Alabama to the North and, eventually, Canada.

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Schwartz, Virginia. 2000. Send One Angel Down. New York: Holiday House. Coming of age novel of a racially mixed girl who is the daughter of the plantation owner.

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Siegelson, Kim. 2000. Escape South. New York: Golden Books. Chapter book. Fictional story of a black family escaping from a plantation in Georgia and joining other black families living with the Seminole Indians in Florida.

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Sinnott, Susan. 1999. Welcome to Addy's World, 1864: Growing Up During America's Civil War. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Company Publications. Pictures; photos; text. Due to Addy's character being black, the book focuses closely on black life in the south and north, and on related topics, such as abolitionists, UGRR, and black music. This book is part of the American Girl series.

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Smucker, Barbara. 1977. Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Harper & Row. Fictionalized account of an escape from Mississippi to Canada, featuring real people (Levi Coffin) and accurate historical detail.

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Stanchak, John. 2000. The Visual Dictionary of the Civil War. New York: Dorling Kindersley. One of DK's excellent "visual dictionaries" which includes two-page spreads on "Black Troops" and "Slavery" that are of particular interest.

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Stein, Conrad. 1981. The Story of the Underground Railroad. Chicago, IL: Children's Press. Emphasizes the Ohio and New England networks.

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Stein, Conrad. 1997. The Underground Railroad. Chicago, IL: Children's Press. Text illustrated with pictures and photos. Simpler narrative of his The Story of the Underground Railroad.

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Steins, Richard. 1993. The Nation Divides: The Civil War. Breckenridge, CO: Twenty First Century Books. Considerable emphasis on blacks during this era; more than half the book directly relates to issues of slavery, prejudice in the Union army, or Amendment 13.

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Sterling, Dorothy. 1954. Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Substantial early biography with an interesting bibliography indicating the extent of publications on UGRR related issues in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Stolz, Mary. 1994. Cezanne Pinto: a Memoir. New York: Knopf. Although this is a novel, it accurately captures the essence of many slaves' experiences in plantation life, escape, and resettlement as free people. This story focuses on a man who becomes a cowboy in the American West, eventually settling in Canada.

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Stolz, Mary. 1997. A Ballad of the Civil War. New York: Harper Collins. Short book but it packs an emotional punch on the emotional effects of the Civil War on families. Twin brothers with differing views on slavery fight on opposite sides. Based on a Civil War era song.

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Sullivan, George. 1994. Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie. New York: Penguin. Photos; text. History and underwater discovery of slave ship.

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Swain, Gwenyth. 2001. President of the Underground Railroad: A Story About Levi Coffin. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Books. Chapter book. Standard biography. Explains origin of the term "underground railroad."

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Swift, Hildegard Hoyt. 1932. The Railroad to Freedom. New York: Harcourt Brace. Perhaps the first account of Harriet Tubman written explicitly for young people. The author lived in Auburn, NY and knew Tubman herself. In addition to the 350-page account (which the author calls a "story" not strictly a biography) there is an interesting "first voice, second voice" debate on slavery at the start, as well as quotes from eight prominent men of the time.

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Taylor, M.W. 1991. Harriet Tubman: Antislavery Activist. New York: Chelsea House. Pictures and photos.

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Vaughn, Marcia. 2001. The Secret to Freedom. New York: Lee and Low Books. Pictures; text. Fictional account of how an ex-slave remembers learning the quilt code, and making quilts to help slaves escape. Contains a one-page "key" to quilt codes.

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Walter, Mildred Pitts. 1996. Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl. New York: Scholastic. Fictional account of a Massachusetts slave who sued her owner for freedom under the Massachusetts Constitution in 1781 and won. Based on true story of Mum Bett.

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Waters, Andrew (editor) 2002. Prayin' To Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher. Companion to the Brenda Hurmence volumes on South Carolina and North Carolina narratives (see this bibliography). Waters also edited On Jordan's Stormy Banks: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia.

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Warner, Lucille. 1976. From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown. New York: Dial Press. Adaptation of the autobiography of William Wells Brown.

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Watkins, Richard. 2001. Slavery: Bondage Throughout History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Striking illustrations reminiscent of Tom Feelings, well known artist and illustrator.

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Weidt, Maryann. 1997. Revolutionary Poet: A Story About Phyllis Wheatley. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Creative Minds Book. Chapter book.

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Williams, Carla. 2002. The Underground Railroad. Chanhassan, MN: The Child's World. Freedom series. Includes timeline, glossary and resource list.

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Winter, Jeanette. 1988. Follow the Drinking Gourd. New York: Random House. Story and song in picture text.

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Wisler, G. Clifton. 1996. Caleb's Choice. New York: Penguin. White kid is saved from drowning by escaped slave; repays the debt. Comparable to Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad.

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Woodruff, Elvira. 1998. Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad. New York: Knopf. Epistolary novel telling how a white boy and black boy travel into the South to rescue the black boy's sister, taken and sold into slavery.

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Wright, Courtni C. 1994. Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Holiday House. Pictures; text. First-person voice of eight-year-old Joshua, whose family is led by Harriet Tubman from a plantation near Lexington, Kentucky, through Ohio to Sandusky where they boat across Lake Erie to Canada. Overcoming fear, hunger, wild dogs, and bare feet in snow add to the tension of the escape.

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Wyeth, Sharon. 2001. Freedom's Wings: Corey's Diary Kentucky to Ohio, 1857. New York: Scholastic. One of the Dear America diary/journal series of Scholastic's historical fiction.

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Wyeth, Sharon. 2002. Flying Free: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary, Book Two. New York: Scholastic. Picks up Corey's story in 1858 in Canada. Though safe, they fear slave catchers.

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Wyeth, Sharon. 1998. Once on This River. New York: Knopf. Novel of Africans in northern states, based in part on the author's ancestors. Conflict in the story comes from the barriers between free blacks and slaves.

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Zach, Cheryl, 1995. A Dream of Freedom. New York: Bantam. Dubbed an "historical romance," this novel is set in the Civil War era and follows the life of slave Hannah, who escapes to work on the underground railroad to free others. Romantic subplot throughout.

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Zlinert, Karen. 1997. The Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition. North Haven, CT: Linnet Books. Relates the history of the Amistad revolt but connects its political repercussions.

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