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Falmouth Juneteenth Adult Fiction
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Falmouth Juneteenth Adult Fiction
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"First-person narratives of escapes to freedom in the north." Illustrated with unpaged photos and portraits. Includes narratives by Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending four years with relatives in the South, a fifteen-year-old girl accepts the idea that slaves are property and is horrified to learn when she returns North that her home is a station on the underground railroad.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Traveling along the path of the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Michigan, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country weaves together unlikely stories of love, survival, and familial upheaval that map the interconnected history of the peoples of North America in an entirely new and resonant way"--
11) The conductors
Author
Series
Murder and magic volume 1
Publisher
A John Joseph Adams Book, Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that white authorities would otherwise ignore. In the heart of Philadelphia's Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there's a strange death or magical curses causing trouble,...
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a map Ziggy and his friends discover an old tunnel that was once used as a safe haven by escaped slaves. While checking out the tunnel, the trap door gets stuck and the boys are forced to use the old, dark, damp tunnels that just may be haunted.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the north.
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