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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On December 21, 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband, William, slipped out into the cold, dark night and took their first steps towards freedom. They were runaway slaves. Posing as a white man traveling with a slave, Ellen courageously boarded a train bound for Philadelphia. Could they actually make it a thousand miles without being discovered? As each tension-filled day passed and freedom got closer, Ellen and William risked everything - even death...
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English
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In the winter of 1852, a group of Philadelphia abolitionists dedicated to assisting runaway slaves in their flight to freedom formed a new assistance group to be part of the Underground Railroad-the General Vigilance Committee. William Still, himself a son of slaves, was named its secretary and executive director. Deeply moved by the stories of the fugitive slaves he helped conduct northward, Still took his committee record-keeping to a higher level....
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Language
English
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Born into slavery on a Maryland farm, Josiah Henson (17891883) worked as a foreman, married, and became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Faced with the prospect of separation from his family, Henson fled with his wife and children to Ontario, where he became a leader in the Afro-Canadian community. The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself first appeared in 1849. The book's avid readers...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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"Soon after American colonists had won independence from Great Britain, Ona Judge was fighting for her own freedom from one of America's most famous founding fathers, George Washington. George and Martha Washington valued Ona as one of their most skilledand trustworthy slaves, but she would risk everything to achieve complete freedom. Born into slavery at Mount Vernon, Ona seized the opportunity to escape when she was brought to live in the President's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The year is 1854. Anthony Burns, a Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston, but his freedom is short-lived. According to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Burns is soon imprisoned. The antislavery forces in Massachusetts are outraged. Abolitionist lawyer Richard Dana steps forward to defend Burns free of charge, and the sensational trial brings massive riots and thousands of troops to the streets of Boston. At...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.
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English
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"Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office in Philadelphia after teaching himself to read and write, he began directly assisting enslaved people who were crossing over from the South into freedom. Andrew Diemer captures the full range and accomplishments of Still's life, from his resistance to Fugitive Slave Laws and his relationship...
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Publisher
37 INK
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"--
15) A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of occupying Union troops. Historian Blight...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr."--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Young readers edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award Finalist for Non-Fiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for freedom. Now in a Young Readers Edition"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
48 pages :3952 : illustrations (mostly color), chart ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
President George Washington and his wife enslaved more than 150 people in the mid-1700s. In 1796, one of their slaves escaped. Her name was Oney Judge. Oney Judge: Escape from Slavery and the President's House explores her story and her legacy.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson, a slave who spent forty-two years in pre-Civil War bondage in the American South and eventually escaped with his wife and four young children, travelling 600 miles and eventually settling with his family as a free man across the border in Canada. Once there, Henson rescued 118 more slaves and purchased land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad,...
20) Runaway slaves
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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