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61) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprtin of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about Harriet Tubman! It's the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers. This Little Golden Book about Harriet Tubman--a true hero who helped to free enslaved Black people as a conductor on the Underground Railroad--is an inspiring read-aloud for young children."--
62) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Born into slavery in c.1820, Harriet Tubman would later run away and help scores of other African American slaves escape to freedom in the North using the 'Underground Railroad.' A nurse, scout, and advisor during the American Civil War, Harriet co-led the Combahee River Raid, in which 700 slaves were liberated. After the war, Harriet became involved in women's suffrage, or the right to vote, and opened a retirement home for sick and elderly African...
63) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
White Quaker Abolitionist Thomas Garrett and William Still, a free, black anti-slavery activist, 'conducted' thousands of fugitives to freedom through the 'corridor of courage', through Maryland's Eastern Shore to the streets of Philadelphia.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent some thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people and women's suffrage. This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed...
76) Harriet Tubman
Series
Publisher
NEST Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1996
Language
English
Description
Animated biography of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people, who helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom in the North.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman recently arrived via...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free. Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it, and once free, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans in 1831, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring escape from Louisville. Discovered by slave catchers in Michigan, they were slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause in the Blackburn Riot of 1833. The couple was spirited across the river to Canada, but Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. The Blackburn...
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