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Summary: "From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASE, SALMON P. STARicks, Mary Kay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 RICMcDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: "No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What McDonoughDiemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIEFoner, Eric
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner relates the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FONMull, Carol E.
Summary: "This book is the first comprehensive exploration of abolitionism and the network of escape from slavery in the state. First-person accounts are interwoven with an expansive historical overview of national events to offer a fresh examination of Michigan's critical role in the movement to end American slavery"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co., Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 MULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7115 MULMcDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 TUBKeith, LeeAnna
Summary: "A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEIBrands, H. W.
Summary: "What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRADouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8092 DOULerner, Gerda
Summary: "A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 LERKaplan, Fred
Summary: Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KAPBordewich, Fergus M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 BOREvans, Shane.
Summary: "A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated by a group of slaves. Readers experience the fugitives' escape, their long nighttime journey punctuated by meetings with friends and enemies, and their final glorious arrival in a place of freedom."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 EVACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 EVAFleming, Thomas J.
Summary: Explores the possibility that the Civil War started not because of slavery, but because the South was chosen to house the nation's leadership instead of northern New England where the Revolution had begun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.711 FLERuffin, Frances E.
Summary: Profiles the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, and an advisor to presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOULowry, Beverly.
Contents: Araminta -- Dorchester : birth -- Childhood -- At Polish Mills : a shower of fire -- The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads -- Sold and carried away : the slave-holder's choice -- Marriage -- Over the line -- Family -- Rescues, promises -- Becoming Moses -- With John Brown : dreams, metaphor -- Last rescue -- The General -- Beaufort, South Carolina -- The proclamation, the raid -- Raining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBMAN, HARRIET LOWDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUFord, Carin T.
Summary: Explains the early plight of the slaves and their run for freedom during and after the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 FORInskeep, Steve
Summary: "Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 INSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 INSDouglass, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUMillstein, Evelyn
Summary: One of America’s most important movements, the Underground Railroad changed the course of our Nation’s history. It was composed of people who risked their lives by defying the Fugitive Slave Law that maintained that slaves were essentially property. A compelling saga that had never fully been told, this book recounts the first interracial movement led by African Americans, heroic men and women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Clair Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MILClinton, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004