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Underground Railroad Books for Adults

  • Anquandah, Kwesi J. Castles and Forts of Ghana. Atalante, Ghana: Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.
  • Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. Thorndike, ME: G. K. Hall, 1999, c1998.
  • Blockson, Charles. Underground Railroad. NY: Prentice Hall Press. Division of Simon & Schuster, 1998. 
  • Bok, Francis. Escape From Slavery. NY: St. Martin's Press, c2003.
  • Bontemps, Arna. Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
  • Bradford, Sarah. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1993.  
  • Bradford, Sarah. The Moses of Her People: Harriet Tubman. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1981.
  • Butler, Nancy & Power, Michael.  Slavery and Freedom in Niagara. Ontario: The Niagara Historical Society, 1993.
  • Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. NY: Little Brown & Co., 2004.
  • Franklin, John Hope. In Search of the Promised Land: A Black Family and the Old South. NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Franklin, John Hope. Mirror to America:  The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.
  • Gates, Henry Lewis, Jr. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. NY: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
  • Gayla, Sharon. Harriet Tubman and The Freedom Train. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2002.
  • Hartman, Saidiya. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
  • Hine, Darlene Clark. The African-American Odyssey. NY: Prentice Hall, 2002.
  • Jacobs, Harriet and Myrlie Evers-Williams. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Signet Classics, 2000.
  • Kallen, Stuart A. Life on the URR. NY: Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  • McGovern, Ann. Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman. NY:
  • Rebound by Sagebrush, 1999.
  • Pettit, Eber M.  Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad. Chautauqua Region Press, 1999.
  • Rennert, Richard, ed. Shapers of America: Profiles of Great Black Americans (Harriet Tubman). Chelsea House Publishers, 1992.
  • Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom.  London: MacMillan, 1899.                                   
  • Still, William. Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, Sc. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1970.                                                               
  • Thomas, Owen A. Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula. NY: Region Niagara Tourist Council, 1995.
  • Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. Robinson Books, 2002.
  • Wheatley, Phyillis, edited with an introduction by Julian D. Mason, Jr.  The Poems of Phyllis Wheatley. University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
  • Wray, John. Canaan's Tongue. NY, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
Web Links:
  1. Black History Activities Black History Activities
    Lots of fun activities to do with your child!
  2. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
    We reveal stories about freedom's heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times, challenging and inspiring everyone to take courageous steps for freedom today.
  3. Slave Life and the Underground Railroad Slave Life and the Underground Railroad
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