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-- Five thousand miles to freedom.c2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Five thousand miles to freedomc2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: 973.71 FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a detailed account of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape from slavery in 1848, and describes the institution of slavery in the South along with the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad.
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c1988., A.A. Knopf Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
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c1988., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the fugitive slave acts.
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c2000., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: 973.7 115 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve true accounts of slaves who escaped to freedom from slavery in the American South before the Civil War. Harriet Tubman, Solomon Northup, John Anderson, Ann Maria Weems, Mary Prince, William Wells Brown.
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c2000., Clarion Books Call No: 973.7 115 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve true accounts of slaves who escaped to freedom from slavery in the American South before the Civil War.
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2000., Juvenile, Clarion Books Call No: 973.71 FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Twelve true accounts of slaves who escaped to freedom from slavery in the American South before the Civil War, including Ellen and William Craft, Harriet Tubman.
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c2002., Primary, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: On my own history
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c2002., Primary, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: On my own history.Summary Note: Ellen and William Craft were slaves determined to escape to freedom. Their daring plan involved Ellen traveling as a white male slave master with William as her slave. Risking everything, they embarked on their journey from Georgia on December 21, 1848. The difficult trip ended with the couple arriving safely in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. For grades 1-3.
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2011., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 920 CRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History speaks : picture books plus reader's theater.Summary Note: Tells the story of the escape of Ellen Craft and her husband William from slavery in Macon Georgia to Philadelphia by rail and steamship while posing as a white man and his slave.
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2004., Ivan R. Dee Call No: 973.71 HEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Selected narratives from Levi Coffin and William Still, the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad.
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2019., Aladdin Call No: B JUDGE Edition: Young readers edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the life of Ona Judge, one of George and Martha Washington's slaves, who escaped after the Washingtons moved to Philadelphia--the nation's capital at the time--and she began interacting with the city's free black population. Discusses the lengths the Washingtons went to in order to recapture Ona afterwards.
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1997., Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: 973.71 GOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the history of the Underground Railroad from the roots of slavery through the post-Emancipation era by focusing on the lives of the participants.
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2015., Algonquin Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 1848: Emily Edmonson was among seventy-six fugitives caught on the Pearl during America's largest slave escape attempt. She was to be sent south - unless her father paid ransom.
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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Hyperion Books for Children Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s American heroesSummary Note: "Robert Smalls was a true American patriot. Despite the burdens America laid upon him, he loved our country. He believed in the "inherent justice" of American democracy and in the principles espoused in the Declaration of Independence"--Afterword.
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2004., Greenhaven Press Call No: 973.71 COD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History firsthandSummary Note: Provides over twenty articles from the era of slavery in which slaves and abolitionists discuss the experience of fleeing slavery, the perils and punishments of trying to escape, efforts to assist runaways, and obstacles to freedom.
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-- Daring escape of Ona Judge[2021]., Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A picture book poem celebrating the life of Ona Judge, one of George and Martha Washington's slaves. The narrator asks Ona why she would ever want to run away--the answer is liberty is worth it, no matter how good Ona has it in the president's house.
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c2008., Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: B SMA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African American advancement.
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Call No: 973.71 PAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of the abolitionist movementSummary Note: Examines the stories of slave narratives and their effect on the abolitionist movement of the United States.
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2014., Dover Publications, Inc. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dover thrift editionsSummary Note: Compiles thirty firsthand accounts written by and pertaining to slaves, discussing their experience with slavery and the Underground Railroad. Features the stories of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Eliza Harris, Harriet Jacobs, and William and Ellen Craft among others.
