Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Michele Wood Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2020 Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.”…
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrator: Kadir Nelson Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2006 In lyrical text, Carole Boston Weatherford describes Tubman’s spiritual journey as she hears the…
Freedom Roads : Searching For the Underground Railroad
Author: Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan Publisher: Cricket Books, 2003. The Underground Railroad was meant to be a set of secret pathways, and its traces have been obscured by time.…
The Underground Railroad : an interactive history adventure
Author: Allison Lassieur Capstone Press, 2008 Starting in colonial times, thousands of African people were kidnapped and brought to the United States, where they were enslaved. Those who escaped were…