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SLAVERY AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

BIBLIOGRAPHY COMPILED BY

bulletCathy Nelson, Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator, Columbus Public Schools; founder, and President of Friends of Freedom Society, Inc. 
bulletCarol A Rueger, The Wooster Book Co. 
bulletRosalie Yoakam, Clearcreek Elem. School, Springboro, OH 
bulletSharon Montgomery, Friends of Freedom Society member and Columbus Metropolitan Library employee

Adler, David A., (Holiday House); juv. biography A PICTURE BOOK OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1993 A PICTURE BOOK OF HARRIET TUBMAN, 1993

Allen, William Francis et al. (ed.), SLAVE SONGS OF THE U.S. (1867; reprinted by Applewood Books); non-ficton

Altman, Susan & Lechner, Susan, FOLLOWERS OF THE NORTH STAR (Children's Press, 1993); juvenile poetry

Armstrong, Jennifer, STEAL AWAY (Orchard Books, 1992); juvenile historical fiction

Ayres, Katherine, NORTH BY NIGHT: A STORY OF THE UGRR (Delacorte, 1998); juv. historical fiction [Ohio]

Banks, Sara Harrell, ABRAHAM'S BATTLE: A NOVEL OF GETTYSBURG (Athenuem Books, 1999); juv.historical fiction

Barrett, Tracy, NAT TURNER AND THE SLAVE REVOLT (Millbrook Press, 1993); juv. biography

Beatty, Patricia, WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? (Morrow Jr. Books, 1992); juv. historical fiction

Bentley, Judith, DEAR FRIEND: THOMAS GARRETT AND WILLIAM STILL COLLABORATORS ON THE UGRR (1997); juv. non-fiction

Berry, James, AJEEMAH AND HIS SON (Harper Trophy, 1991); juv. historical fiction

Bial, Raymond, THE STRENGTH OF THESE ARMS (Houghton Mifflin, 1997); non-fiction

Bial, Raymond, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Houghton Mifflin, 1997); juv. non-fiction

Blassingame, John W., THE SLAVE COMMUNITY: PLANTATION LIFE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH (Oxford, 1989); non-fiction

Blockson, Charlers "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD," NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, July 1984

Blockson, Charles, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: DRAMATIC FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF DARING ESCAPES TO FREEDOM (Prentice Hall 1987); non-fiction

Branch, Muriel Miller, JUNETEENTH: FREEDOM DAY (Cobblehill Books, 1998); juv. non-fiction

Brandt, Nat, THE TOWN THAT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR (Dell, 1990); non-fiction [Ohio]

Brill, MarleneTorg, ALLEN JAY AND THE UGRR (Carolrhoda Books, 1993); juv. non-ficiton [Ohio]

Bromfield, Louis, THE FARM (Harper Bros., 1953); fiction

Bryant, Louella, THE BLACK BONNET (New England Press, 1996); juv. historical fiction

Buckley, Roger Norman, CONGO JACK (Pinto Press, 1998); historical fiction

Buckmaster, Henrietta, LET MY PEOPLE GO: THE STORY OF THE UGRR (Univ. of SC Press, 1992); non-fiction

Caccamo, James F., HUDSON OHIO AND THE UGRR (Friends of the Hudson Library, 1992); non-fiction [Ohio]

Carbone, Elisa Lynn, STEALING FREEDOM (Knopf, 1998); juv. historical fiction

Carlson, Judy, GREAT LIVES: HARRIET TUBMAN, CALL TO FREEDOM (Ballantine Books, 1989); juv. biography

Cheney, Cora VERMONT: THE STATE WITH THE STORYBOOK PAST (New England Press, 1996) Clark, Margaret Goff, FREEDOM CROSSING (Scholastic, Inc., 1980); juv. historical-fiction

Coleman, Evelyn & Robinson, Aminah, TO BE A DRUM (Whitman & Co., 1998); picture book

Collier, James Lincoln & Collier, Christopher, JUMP SHIP TO FREEDOM (Delacorte Press, 1984); juv. historical fiction

Collier, James Lincoln & Collier, Christopher, WHO IS CARRIE? (Delacorte Press, 1981); juv. historical fiction

Connell, Kate, STORIES OF AMERICA: TALES FROM THE UGRR (Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993); non-fiction

Connelly, Bernardine, FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD (Rabbit Ears Press, 1997); picture book

Cosner, Shaaron THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Franklin Watts, 1991); juv. non-fiction

Courlander, Harold, NEGRO FOLK MUSIC (Dover, 1992); non-fiction

Currie, Stephen, MUSIC IN THE CIVIL WAR (Betterway Books, 1992); non-fiction

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, SELECTED POETRY (Dover Publications, 1997)

Edwards, Pamela, BAREFOOT: ESCAPE ON THE UGRR (Harper Collins, 1997); picture book

Feelings, Tom, THE MIDDLE PASSAGE (Dial Books, 1998); juv. non-fiction

Ferris, Jerri, GO FREE OR DIE: A STORY ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN (Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1988); juv. biography

Forrester, Sandra, MY HOME IS OVER JORDAN (Lodestar Books, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Forrester, Sandra, SOUND THE JUBILEE (Lodestar Books, 1995); juv. historical fiction

Fox, Paula, THE SLAVE DANCER (Dell Publishing, 1983); juv. historical fiction

Franklin, John Hope, RUNAWAY SLAVES: REBELS ON THE PLANTATION, 1790- 1860 (Oxford, 1999); non-fiction

Freedman, Florence, TWO TICKETS TO FREEDOM: THE TRUE STORY OF ELLEN AND WILLIAM CRAFT, FUGITIVE SLAVES (Peter Bedrick Books, 1971); juv. biography

Fritz, Jean, BRADY (Coward, McCann, & Geohagen, Inc., 1960; Puffin Books, 1987); juv. historical fiction

Gaines, Edith M., FREEDOM LIGHT: UGRR STORIES FROM RIPLEY, OHIO (New Day Press, 1991); juv. non-fiction

Gara, Larry, LIBERTY LINE: THE LEGEND OF THE UGRR (Univ. Press of KY, 1996); non-fiction

Gayle, Sharon Shavers, ESCAPE! A STORY OF THE UGRR (Soundprints, 1999); picture book

Gorrell, Gena K., THE NORTH STAR TO FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE UGRR (Delacorte, 1997); juv. non-fiction

Granfield, Linda, AMAZING GRACE: THE STORY OF THE HYMN (Tundra Books, 1997); juv. non-fiction

Greenwood, Barbara, THE LAST SAFE HOUSE; A STORY OF THE UGRR (Kids Can Press Ltd, 1998); juv. non-fiction

Guccione, Leslie, COME MORNING (Carolrhoda books, 1995); juv. historical fiction

Haley, Alex, ROOTS (Doubleday, 1976); non-fictioon

Hamilton, Virginia, ANTHONY BURNS: THE DEFEAT AND TRIUMPH OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE (Scholastic, Inc. 1988); juv. historical ficiton

Hamilton, Virginia, THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR (Collier Books; 1984, 1968); juv. fiction

Hamilton, Virgina, MANY THOUSAND GONE: AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM (Knopf, 1993); juv. non-fiction

Hamilton, Virginia, THE MYSTERY OF DREAR HOUSE: THE CONCLUSION OF DIES DREAR CHRONICLE (Collier, 1988); juv. fiction

Hamilton, Virginia, THE PEOPLE COULD FLY - AMERICAN BLACK FOLKTALES (Knopf, 1993); juv. folktales

Hansen, Ellen (ed.), THE UGRR: LIFE ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM (Discovery Enterprises, Ltd, 1993)

Hansen, Joyce, I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY: THE DIARY OF PATSY, A FREED GIRL (Scholastic, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Hansen, Joyce, OUT OF THIS PLACE (Avon Camelot, 1988); juv. historical fiction

Hansen, Joyce WHICH WAY FREEDOM? (Walker, 1986); juv. historical fiction

Haskins, James & Benson, Kathleen, BOUND FOR AMERICA: THE FORCED MIGRATION OF AFRICANS TO THE NEW WORLD (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1999); juv. non-fiction

Haskins, Jim, GET ON BOARD: THE STORY OF THE UGRR (Scholastic, 1993); juv. non-fiction

Haynes, Betsy, COWSLIP (Nelson, 1973); juv. historical fiction

Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas, NEXT STOP FREEDOM: THE STORY OF A SLAVE GIRL (Silver Burdette Press); juv. historical fiction

Hooks, Willian H., THE BALLAD OF BELLE DORCAS (Knopf, 1990); picture book

Hooks, William H., FREEDOM'S FRUIT (Knopf, 1996); picture book

Hopkinson, Deborah, SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT (Knopf, 1993); picture book

Houston, Gloria, BRIGHT FREEDOM'S SONG: A STORY OF THE UGRR (Harcourt Brace,1998); juv. historical fiction

Howell, Donna Wyant (ed.) I WAS A SLAVE: TRUE LIFE STORIES TOLD BY FORMER AMERICAN SLAVES IN THE 1930'S (American Legacy Books, 1995); biography

Hudson, Wade, PASS IT ON - AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY FOR CHILDREN (Scholastic, 1993)

Humphreville, Frances, HARRIET TUBMAN, FLAME FO FREEDOM (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967)

Hurmence, Belinda, SLAVERY TIME WHEN I WAS CHILLUN (Putnam, 1997); juv. non-fiction

Hurmence, Belinda, TANCY (Clarion Books, 1984); juv. historical fiction

Johnson, Dolores, NOW LET ME FLY: THE STORY OF A SLAVE FAMILY (Macmillan, 1993); picture book

Johnson, Dolores, SEMINOLE DIARY: REMEMBRANCES OF A SLAVE (Macmillan, 1994); juv. non-fiction

Johnson, Lois Walfrid, THE RIVERBOAT ADVENTURES (Bethany House) ESCAPE INTO THE NIGHT, 1995 MIDNIGHT RESCUE, 1996 RACE FOR FREEDOM, 1996 THE SWINDLER'S TREASURE, 1997

Johnston, Tony, THE WAGON (Tambourine Books, 1996); picture book

Jurmain, Suzanne, FREEDOM'S SONS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE AMISTAD MUTINY (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1968); juv. non-fiction

Katz, William Loren, BREAKING THE CHAINS: AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVE RESISTANCE (Atheneum, 1990); juv. non-fiction

Kelton, Nancy, REBEL SLAVE (Raintree Publishers, 1977)

Kinard, Lee, HARRIET TUBMAN'S SECRET RAID (Winston-Derek, 1995)

Lasky, Kathryn, TRUE NORTH: A NOVEL OF THE UGRR (Scholastic, 1996); juv. historical fiction

Latham, Frank B., LINCOLN AND THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION JAN. 1, 1863: THE DOCUMENT THAT TURNED THE CIVIL WAR INTO A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (Watts, 1969); juv. non-fiction

Lawrence, Jacob, HARRIET AND THE PROMISED LAND (Simon & Schuster, 1968); juv. poetry

Lester, Julius, BLACK COWBOY WILD HORSES: A TRUE STORY (Dial Books, 1998); picture book

Lester, Julius, FROM SLAVE SHIP TO FREEDOM ROAD (Dial Books, 1998); juv. non-fiction

Lester, Julius, LONG JOURNEY HOME: STORIES FROM BLACK HISTORY (Puffin, 1988); juv. historical fiction Lester, Julius, THIS STRANGE NEW FEELING (Scholastic, 1987); juv. historical fiction

Lester, Julius, TO BE A SLAVE (Dial, 1968); juv. non-fiction

Levine, Ellen, IF YOU TRAVELED ON THE UGRR (Scholastic, 1988) juv. non-fiction

Litwack, Leon F., BEEN IN THE STORM TOO LONG: THE AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY (Vintage Books, 1979); non-fiction

Ludwig, Charles, LEVI COFFIN AND THE UGRR (Herald Press, 1975); non-fiction

Lyons, Mary E. LETTERS FROM A SLAVE GIRL: THE STORY OF HARRIET JACOBS (Simon & Schuster, 1992); young adult historical fiction

Lyons, Mary E., THE POISON PLACE (Atheneum Books, 1997); juv. historical fiction

McCurdy, Michael (ed.), ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: THE BOYHOOD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN HIS OWN WORDS (Knopf, 1994); juv. biography

McGovern, Ann, RUNAWAY SLAVE: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN (The Four Winds Press, 1965); juv. biography

McGovern, Ann, WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN (The Four Winds Press, 1965); juv. biography

McKissack, Patricia C., DEAR AMERICA: A PICTURE OF FREEDOM: THE STORY OF CLOTEE, A SLAVE GIRL (Scholastic, 1997); juv. historical fiction

McKissack, Patricia C. MIRANDY AND BROTHER WIND (Knopf, 1988); picture book

McLoone, Margo, A PHOTO-ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY (Bridgestone Books) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1997 HARRIET TUBMAN, 1997 SOJOURNER TRUTH, 1997

McMullan, Kate, THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN, CONDUCTOR OF THE UGRR

Mellon, James (ed.), BULLWHIP DAYS: THE SLAVES REMEMBER: AN ORAL HISTORY (Avon Books, 1988); non-fiction

Meltzer, Milton, UNDERGROUND MAN (Gulliver Books, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Meyer, Linda D., HARRIET TUBMAN: THEY CALLED ME MOSES (Parenting Press, 1988); juv. biography

Miller, William, FREDERICK DOUGLASS: THE LAST DAYS OF SLAVERY (Lee & Low Books, 1995); juv. biography

Monjo, F.N., THE DRINKING GOURD (Harper Collins, 1993); juv. non-fiction

Moore, Kay, ...IF YOU LIVED AT THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR (Scholastic, 1994); juv. non-fiction

Myers, Walter Dean, AMISTAD: A LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM (Dutton Children's Books, 1998); juv. non-fiction

Myers, Walter Dean, NOW IS YOUR TIME (Harper, 1992); juv. non-fiction

Paterson, Katherine, JIP: HIS STORY (Lodestar Books, 1996); juv. fiction

Paulson, Gary, NIGHTJOHN (Delacorte Press, 1993); juv. historical fiction

Paulson, Gary, SARNY (Delacorte Press, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Petry, Ann, HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR ON THE UGRR (Crowell, 1955); juv. biography

Pinkney, Andrea Davis, SILENT THUNDER: A CIVIL WAR STORY (Hyperion Books, 1999); juv. historical fiction

Porter, Connie, American Girl series (Pleasant Co. Publications) ADDY LEARNS A LESSON: A SCHOOL STORY,1993 
ADDY SAVES THE DAY: A SUMMER STORY, 1994 
ADDY'S SURPRISE: A CHRISTMAS STORY, 1993 
CHANGES FOR ADDY: A WINTER STORY, 1994 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDY!: A SPRINGTIME STORY, 1993 
HIGH HOPES FOR ADDY, 1999 
MEET ADDY - AN AMERICAN GIRL, 1993

Rappaport, Doreen, ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: FIVE JOURNEYS TO FREEDOM; (Harper Collins, 1991); juv. non-fiction

Reeder, Carolyn, ACROSS THE LINES (Atheneum Books, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Riggio, Anita, SECRET SIGNS ALONG THE UGRR (Boyds Mills Press, 1997); picture book

Ringgold, Faith, AUNT HARRIET'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN THE SKY (Crown Publishers, 1992); picture book

Ringgold, Faith, WE FLEW OVER THE BRIDGE - THE MEMOIRS OF FAITH RINGGOLD (Little, Brown, 1995); biography

Robinet, Harriette Gillem, WASHINGTON CITY IS BURNING (Atheneum Books, 1998); juv. historical fiction

Rochelle, Belinda, JEWELS (Lodestar Books, 1998); picture book

Roddy, Lee, ROAD TO FREEDOM (Bethany Press, 1999); juv. historical ficiton

Rogers, James, THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT (Facts on File, Inc., 1994); juv. non-fiction

Rosen, Michael J. & Robinson, Aminah, SCHOOL FOR POMPEY WALKER (Harcourt Brace, 1995); juv. historical fiction

Ruby, Lois, STEAL AWAY HOME (Macmillan, 1994); juv. historical fiction

Salt, Elizabeth Ann, BUCKEYE HERITAGE: OHIO'S HISTORY IN SONG (Enthea Press, 1992); scores

Sanders, Scott Russell, A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM (Atheneum Books, 1997); picture book

Schomp, Virginia, HE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM: FREDERICK DOUGLASS (based on the writings of F. Douglass; Benchmark Books, 1997); juv. biography

Schroeder, Alan & Pinkney, Jerry, MINTY: A STORY OF YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN (Dial Books, 1996); juv. biography

Shaik, Fatima, MELITTE (Dial Books, 1997); juv. historical fiction

Shumate, Jane, SOJOURNER TRUTH AND THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (Millbrook Press, 1991); juv. biography

Shuter, Jane (ed.), CHARLES BALL AND AMERICAN SLAVERY (Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995); biography

Siebert, Wilbur, BEGINNINGS OF THE UGRR IN OHIO (1947); non-fiction

Silverman, Jerry (ed.), SLAVE SONGS (Chelsea House, 1994); scores

Smalls, Irene, EBONY SEA (Longmeadow Press, 1995); picture book

Smalls, Irene, IRENE JENNIE AND THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE: THE JOHNKANKUS (Little, Brown & Co., 1996); picture book

Smucker, Barbara, RUNAWAY TO FREEDOM: A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY (Harper & Row, 1978); juv. historical fiction

Smucker, Barbara, UNDERGROUND TO CANADA (Puffin Books, 1998)

Stein, R. Conrad, AMERICAN CORNERSTONE OF FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE UGRR (Children's Press, 1981 & 1997); juv. non-fiction

Sterling, Dorothy, FOREVER FREE: THE STORY OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (Doubleday, 1967); juv. non-fiction

Sterne, Emma Gelders, THE SLAVE SHIP (Scholastic, 1953); juv. historical fiction

Stewart, Earl L., AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: AN INTRODUCTION (Schirmer Books, 1998); non-fiction

Still, William, THE UGRR: A RECORD OF FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, LETTERS, ETC. (1871; Johnson Publishing Co., 1970); non-fiction

Stolz, Mary, CEZANNE PINTO: A MEMOIR (Knopf, 1994); juv. historical fiction

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1852; various publishers and dates of reprints including an adaptation for younger readers by Anne Terry White, George Braziller, Inc., 1966); fiction

Tackach, James, THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH (Lucent Books, 1999); juv. non-fiction

Taylor, M.W., BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT: HARRIET TUBMAN ANTISLAVERY ACTIVIST (Chelsea House, 1991); biography

Thomas, Velma Maia, LEST WE FORGET: THE PASSAGE FROM AFRICA TO SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION (Crown Publishers, 1997); juv. non-fiction

Tobin, Jacqueline & Dobard, Raymond G., HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW: A SECRET STORY OF QUILTS AND THE UGRR (Doubleday, 1999); non-fiction

Turner, Ann, NETTIE'S TRIP SOUTH (Macmillan, 1987); picture book

Turner. Glenette, RUNNING FOR OUR LIVES (Holiday House, 1994); juv. historical fiction

Van de Velde, Vivian, THERE'S A DEAD PERSON FOLLOWING MY SISTER AROUND (Harcourt Brace, 1999); juv. fiction

Walter, Mildred Pitts, SECOND DAUGHTER (Scholastic, 1996); young adult historical fiction Weatherford, Carole Boston, JUNETEENTH JAMBOREE (Lee & Low Books, 1995); picture book

Wells, Marian, SILVER HIGHWAY (Bethany House, 1989) fiction

Wesley, Valerie, FREEDOM'S GIFTS: A JUNETEENTH STORY (Simon & Schuster, 1997); juv. fiction

Wilhelm, Doug, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ("Choose Your Own Adventure" series; Ganesh Inc., 1996); juv. fiction

Winter, Jeanette, FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD (Dragonfly Books, 1992); picture book

Wisler, G. Clifton, CALEB'S CHOICE (Puffin, 1998); juv. historical fiction

Woodruff, Elvira, DEAR AUSTIN: LETTERS FROM THE UGRR (Random House, 1998); juv. historical fiction

Work, John (ed.), AMERICAN NEGRO SONGS & SPIRITUALS (Bonanza Books, 1940); scores

Wright, Courtni C., JOURNEY TO FREEDOM: A STORY OF THE UGRR (Holiday House, 1994); picture book

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis, ON THIS RIVER (Knopf, 1998); juv. historical fiction

Yellin, Jean Fagan (ed.), INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL - HARRIET JACOBS (1987); juv. biography

Zach, Cheryl, A DREAM OF FREEDOM (Bantam Books, 1995); young adult romance fiction

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