Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad

Title
Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad

Personal Author EPSB
James, Haskins

Summary
Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.

Other Title
Story of the Underground Railroad
 
Underground Railroad
 
The story of the underground railroad

Year Published
1993

Physical Description
152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
 
pages : illustrations

Note
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level V kit.

Contents
How the Underground Railroad got its name -- Long history of slave escapes, and of fugitive slave laws -- Tracks and stations -- Stationmasters -- Conductors -- Harriet Tubman, the woman called Moses -- Railroad songs -- Train robbers -- Passengers -- John Brown, fugitive slave -- Publicists -- End of the line -- Time line -- Bibliography -- Index.

Note (Local)
PB

Subject
Underground Railroad.
 
Fugitive slaves.

Summary
Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.

ISBN
9780590454186
 
9780590454193

Publisher
New York, New York : Scholastic, 1993.
 
©1993


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George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000270970Checked out
George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000288436Checked out
George P. Nicholson973.7 HASBook31004000273750Non-Fiction