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McKissack, Pat, 1944-. Frederick Douglass : leader against slavery. Rev. ed. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Pub., c2002.
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Yates, Elizabeth. Amos Fortune, free man. New York : Dutton, c1950.
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

Ferris, Jeri. Walking the road to freedom : a story about Sojourner Truth. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, 1988.
Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest.

McKissack, Pat, 1944-. Sojourner Truth : a voice for freedom. Rev. ed. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2002.
Never lie. Never steal. Trust in God -- A slave no more -- From Belle to Sojourner -- Sojourner tells the truth -- Freedom! -- Words to know. Describes the life of the anti-slavery and women's rights activist, from her beginning in slavery to her tireless campaign for the rights and welfare of the freedmen.

Schroeder, Alan. Minty : a story of young Harriet Tubman. New York : Puffin Books, 2000, c1996.
Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.

McKissack, Pat, 1944-. Booker T. Washington : leader and educator. Rev. ed. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2001.
From slavery to freedom -- From Malden to Hampton -- From Hampton to Tuskegee -- The Tuskegee dream -- From poverty to fame. A biography of the former slave who founded Tuskegee University and later became one of the most powerful African-American leaders of the post-Civil War era.

Gregson, Susan R. Phillis Wheatley. Mankato, Minn. : Bridgestone Books, c2002.
Examines the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book, discussing her early life as a slave in Boston in the 1700s, the education and kind treatment she received from her owners, her experiences after being granted her freedom, and her later years.

Lemke, Donald B. The brave escape of Ellen and William Craft. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2006.
Presents a short history of the brave escape by slaves Ellen and William Craft in 1848, written in graphic novel format, and focuses on how the light-skinned Ellen disguised herself as a white slave owner while William posed as her slave in order to flee bondage in Georgia.

Adler, David A. Enemies of slavery. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c2004.
Profiles fourteen American men and women who fought against slavery in the nineteenth century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elijah Lovejoy, and Lucretia Mott.

Nichols, Catherine. African American culture. Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke, c2006.
Presents works of art from African-American history, discussing what they say about African-American life, culture, and politics during the era of slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the twentieth century.

Rappaport, Doreen. Freedom river. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2000.
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

Burgan, Michael. Nat Turner's slave rebellion. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2006.
Provides an account of the slave rebellion of 1831 led by Virginia slave Nat Turner, and tells how the uprising was quelled by the militia and Turner later tried and hanged. Presented in graphic novel form.

Hopkinson, Deborah. From slave to soldier : based on a true Civil War story. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005.
A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt. 1st Dragonfly Books ed. New York : Dragonfly Books :, 1995, c1993.
A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

Levine, Ellen. Henry's freedom box. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Stroud, Bettye, 1938-. The patchwork path : a quilt map to freedom. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2005.
While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2006.
A fictionalized account of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery for freedom in Philadelphia, where she turns her talents to leading others along the Underground Railroad.

Winter, Jeanette. Follow the drinking gourd. 1st Dragonfly Books ed. New York : Knopf :, 1992, c1988.
Runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada, following the directions in a song taught to them by one of the Railroad's conductors, an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe. Based on real events. Includes the song's music and lyrics.

Wright, Courtni Crump. Journey to freedom : a story of the underground railroad. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1994.
Joshua and his family, runaway slaves from a tobacco plantation in Kentucky, follow the Underground Railroad to freedom.

Clark, Margaret Goff. Freedom crossing. New York : Scholastic, c1980.
When Laura returns to her home in New York after living with her aunt and uncle in Virginia for four years, she discovers that her father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape to Canada.

Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. War comes to Willy Freeman. New York : Dell, 1987, c1983.
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.

Deutsch, Stacia. Lincoln's legacy. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperacks, 2005.
Abigail and her friends travel to the past on an urgent mission when their time-traveling teacher returns from the mid-nineteenth century to report that President Abraham Lincoln is thinking about quitting, leaving the issue of slavery unresolved.

Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. The house of Dies Drear. Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006, c1996.
Thomas Small and his family move into an old house that was once used as part of the Underground Railroad and soon realize that the house, where two fugitive slaves and Dies Drear himself had been killed by bounty hunters, continues to hold many secrets.

Hansen, Joyce. I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl. New York : Scholastic, c1997.
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the exciting but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1999.
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

Lester, Julius. Day of tears : a novel in dialogue. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005.
Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.

Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Dream freedom. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, c2000.
Marcus and his classmates learn about the terrible problem of slavery in present-day Sudan and raise money to help buy the freedom of some of the slaves. Alternate chapters tell the stories of the slaves.

Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2000.
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.

McGill, Alice. Miles' song. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.

McKissack, Pat, 1944-. A picture of freedom : the diary of Clotee, a slave girl. Reinforced library ed. New York : Scholastic, 2003, c1997.
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1995], c1993.
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble don't last. New York : Dell Yearling, [2003], c2002.
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Silent thunder : a Civil War story. 1st Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2001, c1999.
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.

Porter, Connie Rose, 1959-. Meet Addy : an American girl. Middleton, WI : Pleasant Co., c1998.
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.

Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering all the bones. 1st Jump at the Sun pbk. ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2005, c2002.
Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.

Ruby, Lois. Steal away home. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999, c1994.
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.

Schmidt, Gary D. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy. New York : Yearling Book, [2006], c2004.
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

Stolz, Mary, 1920-2006. A ballad of the Civil War. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1998, c1997.
Weary of the war, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the Civil War.

Woodruff, Elvira. Dear Austin : letters from the Underground Railroad. 1st Yearling ed. New York : Dell Yearling, 2000, c1998.
In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his African-American friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.). My name is Sally Little Song. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2006.
When their owner plans to sell one of them in 1802, twelve-year-old Sally and her family run away from their Georgia plantation to look for both freedom from slavery and a home in Florida with the Seminole Indians.

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Freedom's wings. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Scholastic, 2002, c2001.
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.