The underground railroad / Raymond Bial.

By:

Bial, Raymond

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:

0395699371
9780395979150

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

973.7

LOC classification:

E450 .B53

Summary: By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives, and hardships of both the "passengers" and "conductors."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	Footprints International School Library Network Toul Kork Campus A TK Campus, 4th Floor, Room B401, Non-Fiction Bookcases(7-8)	Non-Fiction	BIA 973.7 E450 .B53 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	FISTK01684

Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47).

By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives, and hardships of both the "passengers" and "conductors."

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