[PDF] The Underground Railroad eBook

Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345804325

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Author : Glennette Tilley Turner
Publisher : Newman Educational Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780938990055

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The activities of the Underground Railroad, and the Abolitionist Movement in Illinois are documented by the author in this meticulously researched book.

Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590451567

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Answers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slaves.

Author : Philip Wolny
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823940080

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Examines the events and key figures behind the formation and operation of the Underground Railroad, the secretive and illegal organization that helped American slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.

Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 1438131291

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When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was passed by Congress, the flight to freedom for runaway slaves became even more dangerous. Even the free cities of Boston and Philadelphia were no longer safe, and abolitionists who despised slavery had to turn in fugitives. But the Underground Railroad, a secret and loosely organized network of people and safe houses that led slaves to freedom, only grew stronger. Since the late 1700s, blacks and whites had banded together to aid runaways like Maryland slave Frederick Douglass, who disguised himself as a sailor to board a train to New York. Virginia slave Henry Brown packed himself in a box to get to Philadelphia. The minister John Rankin, who hung a lantern to guide runaways to his house by the Ohio River, endured beatings for speaking against slavery. Quaker storeowner Thomas Garrett was put on trial for helping fugitives in Delaware. Meanwhile, the nation marched on toward Civil War. At its height, between 1810 and 1850, these secret routes and safe houses were used by an estimated 30,000 people escaping enslavement. In The Underground Railroad: The Journey to Freedom, read how this secret system worked in the days leading up to the Civil War and the pivotal role it played in the abolitionist movement.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317454162

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Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

Author : James Haskins
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606161466

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Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jim Haskins tells the story of the Underground Railroad. New in paperback, this colorful history weaves together personal stories, historical material, and letters of "conductors" and "stationmasters" who helped slaves to freedom. "Fascinating . . . excellent".--Booklist, boxed review.

Author : Natalie Hyde
Publisher : Uncovering the Past: Analyzing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778715511

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In the 1800s, the Underground Railroad was a system of secret routes and safe places to hide for black slaves trying to escape to freedom. This astonishing book details the evidence that led up to the acceptance of slavery as well as the rejection of it. Readers will discover that when faced with evidence of the plight of slaves, such as slave auction posters, engravings, photographs, and interviews, white people had varying views depending on whether they benefited from slavery themselves. Readers will learn how prejudice and circumstances at the time of an event can influence people's interpretation of evidence and how that perspective can change over time. They will also learn how to use critical thinking in their own examinations of evidence. Present-day examples show how history repeats itself when evidence is denied or interpreted to one side's benefit. Teacher's guide available.

Author : Barbara Brooks Simons
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 145090744X

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Find out about the secret language of the Underground Railroad and the routes that helped slaves escape to freedom.