Edwards, Judith.

Summary: Slaves rebelled and sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress to help free the slaves but the actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to Civil War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 EDW

Sinha, Manisha.

Summary: "Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SIN

De Capua, Sarah

Summary: Briefly describes the accomplishments of American abolitionists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries as they struggled to end slavery.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 326.8 DE C

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 WIL

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 WIL

Hirshman, Linda R.

Summary: "The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman -- and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves'...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 HIR

Diemer, 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 STILL, WILLIAM DIE

Lerner, 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 LER

Murphy, Frank

Summary: "A biography of Frederick Douglass covering his origins as slave and journey to becoming an abolitionist leader"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MUR