The Night of Freedom
| Author | : William Wallace Hebbard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1857 |
| Genre | : Enslaved persons |
| ISBN | : |
The Night Of Freedom
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A Good Night for Freedom
| Author | : Barbara Olenyik Morrow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Underground Railroad |
| ISBN | : 9780439708982 |
Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin's home and must decide whether to turn them in or help them escape to freedom. Includes historical notes on the Underground Railroad and abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin.
Escape Into the Night
| Author | : Lois Walfrid Johnson |
| Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2013-01-23 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802486517 |
One choice will change Libby’s life forever. Libby Norstad’s life has changed to anything but ordinary. In 1857, when she comes to live on the Christina, her father’s steamboat, Libby’s curiosity ensnares her in a mystery. What is the closely held secret of Caleb, the cabin boy who seems determined to make her life miserable? And how can Jordan, a fugitive slave, possibly reach safety and freedom? The night is dark. As three men race to the riverfront, bloodhounds follow their tracks. Through her journey to compassion, will Libby become a freedom seeker? From the golden age of steamboats, the rush of immigrants to new lands, and the dangers of the Underground Railroad come true-to-life stories of courage, integrity, and suspense in the Freedom Seekers series.
Night Boat to Freedom
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2006-10-31 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780374312664 |
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Orange Jumpsuit
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Shrinking Music Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2011-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780983785026 |
A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)
| Author | : Jennifer A. Nielsen |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545682436 |
From NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west. A Night Divided joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!With the rise of the Berlin Wall, Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.But one day on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Gerta concludes that her father wants her and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?
Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10)
| Author | : Nathan Hale |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2020-11-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1647001676 |
Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution—the largest uprising of enslaved people in history—in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series Why would Napoleon Bonaparte sell the Louisiana Territory to the recently formed United States of America? It all comes back to the island nation of Haiti, which Napoleon had planned to use as a base for trade with North America. While Napoleon climbed the ranks of the French army and government, enslaved people were organizing in Haiti under the leadership of François Mackandal, Dutty Boukman, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Touissant L’Ouverture, who in 1791 led the largest uprising of enslaved people in history—the Haitian Revolution. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!
The Price of Freedom
| Author | : Judith Bloom Fradin |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802721664 |
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started a new life in town-until a crew of slave-catchers arrived and apprehended him. When the residents of Oberlin heard of his capture, many of them banded together to demand his release in a dramatic showdown that risked their own freedom. Paired for the first time, highly acclaimed authors Dennis & Judith Fradin and Pura Belpré award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez, provide readers with an inspiring tale of how one man's journey to freedom helped spark an abolitionist movement.
Race for Freedom
| Author | : Lois Walfrid Johnson |
| Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2013-03-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802486525 |
Jordan escaped slavery once. Must he escape again? Ashadowy figure lurks on the dark riverfront near the Christina. Libby is sure that it must be the cruel slave trader Riggs, who has vowed that no slave of his will ever escape alive. Does Riggs suspect that the runaway Jordan is hiding on her pa’s steamboat? Track Libby, Caleb, and Jordan in the second book of the Freedom Seeker’s series as they race to keep Jordon free from the clutches of slavery. Libby and Caleb scan the crowds of passengers bound for the Minnesota Territory. Has Riggs slipped by and boarded the Christina unnoticed? From the golden age of steamboats, the rush of immigrants to new lands, and the dangers of the Underground Railroad come true-to-life stories of courage, integrity, and suspense in the Freedom Seekers series.
Freedom at Midnight
| Author | : Larry Collins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-04-20 |
| Genre | : India |
| ISBN | : 9781950369195 |
"The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen--but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi"--
