The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345804325

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Our Railroad

Our Railroad
Author: Paul K. Larner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2008-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781438947631

What Was the Underground Railroad?

What Was the Underground Railroad?
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2013-12-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0448467127

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground Railroad comes alive!

Overground Railroad

Overground Railroad
Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1430144467

From the award-winning author and illustrator of Before She Was Harriet comes an original and moving perspective of the Great Migration, as seen through the eyes of the young girl Ruth Ellen, whose family journeys from North Carolina to New York City.

Trackwork and Lineside Detail for Your Model Railroad

Trackwork and Lineside Detail for Your Model Railroad
Author: Kent J. Johnson
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780890245712

Featuring more than 30 projects from the experts found in Model Railroader magazine, this book focuses on laying and weathering track and creating the realistic lineside details that are found alongside it.

Freedom's Wings

Freedom's Wings
Author: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439369077

A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.

Operation Toussaint

Operation Toussaint
Author: Tim Ballard
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1642792705

An adaptation of the documentary film: The story of the ex-special agent featured in Sound of Freedom and a covert anti-trafficking mission in Haiti. Tim Ballard left his post as a special agent for the US Department of Homeland Security to found Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.). Through this organization, Tim and his team plan undercover operations to rescue child sex trafficking victims around the world. To date, they have saved hundreds of children from horrific conditions, which Tim wasn’t able to do when bound by government restrictions. In this book incorporating photos and dialogue adapted from the documentary film of the same name, take an inside look at O.U.R., and their mission to end modern-day slavery—as you join Tim and his Special Forces team on a covert mission to Haiti where they bring a ring of sex traffickers who bribed their way out of jail to justice in Operation Toussaint.

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780590451567

Answers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slaves.

The Great Railroad Revolution

The Great Railroad Revolution
Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1610391802

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.