Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad

Titre
Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad

James, Haskins

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

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

Date de publication comme intervalle
1993

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

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

Table des matières
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 locale
PB

Terme de vedette-matière
Underground Railroad.
 
Fugitive slaves.

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

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780590454186
 
9780590454193

Informations de publication
New York, New York : Scholastic, 1993.
 
©1993


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George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000270970Checked out
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