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Author Hansen, Joyce.

Title Freedom roads : searching for the Underground Railroad / Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2003.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1158813~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Nonfiction  J 973.711 HAN    AVAILABLE
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Description xi, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index.
Contents Running South : artifacts from Fort Mose -- Land of the free : History on a ship's log -- A more perfect Union : learning from the law -- Running : The WPA slave narratives -- Steal away : the enslaved speak through spirituals -- I will be hear d : archaeology meets an oral tradition -- midnight seekers after liberty : anecdotes and memories uncover the past -- The last stop : outrunning the fugitive slave laws -- A mystery : when history keeps a secret -- The search continues.
Summary Looks at how historians work and the clues they use to learn about the Underground Railroad, a series of secret escape routes enslaved people followed to freedom.
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 8.8 7 110409
Note Accelerated Reader MG 8.8 7 110409
Subject Underground Railroad -- Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History, Local -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author McGowan, Gary.
ISBN 0812626737 (alk. paper) : 18.95
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