The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 337
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780345804327
ISBN-13 : 0345804325
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Colson Whitehead

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

What Was the Underground Railroad?

What Was the Underground Railroad?
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780448467122
ISBN-13 : 0448467127
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis What Was the Underground Railroad? by : Yona Zeldis McDonough

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 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
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Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages : 64
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0590451561
ISBN-13 : 9780590451567
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by : Ellen Levine

Answers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slaves.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
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Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages : 68
Release :
ISBN-10 : 082394008X
ISBN-13 : 9780823940080
Rating : 4/5 (8X Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Philip Wolny

Examines the events and key figures behind the formation and operation of the Underground Railroad, the secretive and illegal organization that helped American slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 153
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438131290
ISBN-13 : 1438131291
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Ann Malaspina

When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom, read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the abolitionist movement.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author :
Publisher : Uncovering the Past: Analyzing
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0778715515
ISBN-13 : 9780778715511
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Natalie Hyde

In the 1800s, the Underground Railroad was a system of secret routes and safe places to hide for black slaves trying to escape to freedom. This astonishing book details the evidence that led up to the acceptance of slavery as well as the rejection of it. Readers will discover that when faced with evidence of the plight of slaves, such as slave auction posters, engravings, photographs, and interviews, white people had varying views depending on whether they benefited from slavery themselves. Readers will learn how prejudice and circumstances at the time of an event can influence people's interpretation of evidence and how that perspective can change over time. They will also learn how to use critical thinking in their own examinations of evidence. Present-day examples show how history repeats itself when evidence is denied or interpreted to one side's benefit. Teacher's guide available.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 847
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317454168
ISBN-13 : 1317454162
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780486131221
ISBN-13 : 048613122X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : William Still

From a "conductor" who assisted runaway slaves in their flight to freedom, here is a collection of letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' narrow escapes and deadly struggles. Over 50 illustrations.

The Ballad of the Underground Railroad

The Ballad of the Underground Railroad
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Publisher : AuthorHouse
Total Pages : 26
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781434359858
ISBN-13 : 1434359859
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ballad of the Underground Railroad by : Charles L. Blockson

Over the past two decades or more, America has witnessed a healthy renewal of interest of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is a story of suffering, bravery, secret codes, heroic deeds, treachery and lofty ideas. It is a story about the best and the worst of human kind. Disconnected and daring escapees hoped that the North Star would guide them to stations on the burgeoning Underground Railroad; which by the early 1830's still did not have a name. The word spread from plantation to plantation, city to city, town to town; first in whispers and then out right talk, there was a railroad to freedom. Invisible though it may have been, the Underground Railroad had numerous agents, conductors and stations throughout the secret freedom network. Slave owners of course, looked upon the Underground Railroad as organized theft. Under the constitution of the United States slavery was lawful and slaves were property. Although assisting escapees along the freedom network meant breaking the law. Yet, people like Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor did so eagerly. The Underground Railroad remained active until the end of the Civil war.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 52
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780395979150
ISBN-13 : 0395979153
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Underground Railroad by : Raymond Bial

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