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Audiobooks. bibliography Biographies. biography History. Juvenile works. Picture books.Williams, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WILMiles, Tiya
Summary: "From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUBMAN, HARRIET MILShane, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMALLWOOD, THOMAS SHADiemer, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIEDunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: "A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JUDGE, ONA DUNMoore, Michael Boulware
Summary: "On the night of May 13th, 1862, as the Civil War raged on in the United States, 16 enslaved people decided they would reach freedom or die trying. Filled to the brim with suspense, this true story details how Robert Smalls commandeered a Confederate ship through the Charleston harbor toward liberation at the Union blockade. Experience both determination and triumph with this picture book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMAMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022