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Summary: "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 WELMcDonough, 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 Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What McDonoughBordewich, 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 EVAWilliams, Carla
Summary: Provides information about the Underground Railroad, a network of people in the U.S. who helped slaves escape to freedom; looks at the activities of some of the people who played significant roles in the fight to free the slaves; and explains the signals used to communicate with runaway slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WILMull, 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 MULBaumgartner, Alice
Summary: "The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border intoMexico. In South to Freedom historian Alice Baumgartner tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BAUShane, Scott
Summary: "A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilkins, Ebony
Summary: "If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad answers all of kids' most important questions about the Underground Railroad."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WILConway, Martha
Summary: "Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONHaskins, James
Summary: Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.7 HASFoner, 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 FONBader, Bonnie
Summary: The Underground Railroad includes miles of real stories of passengers, conductors, and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, that made their mark on history. Throughout, American Girl character Addy Walker shares snippets of her own gripping fictional story of escaping slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC BADNofi, Albert A.
Summary: Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 NOFKennon, Caroline
Summary: The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave conductors and passengers on the Railroad. Theyll learn about the many safe havens, called depots, that housed fugitives and the secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Tobin, Jacqueline
Summary: The authors reveal secret codes woven by African-American slaves into quilts used to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 TOBMcCoy, Sarah
Summary: "When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mc Coy 2015Whitehead, Colson
Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIDiemer, 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 DIESmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 UNSHale, Nathan
Summary: Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022