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In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.

A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.

A twelve-year-old slave girl begins writing in a journal where she documents her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catharines, Canada.

Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.

"Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six-thousand dollars in the bank and the Widow Douglas as his guardian, Huck Finn faces unforeseen challenges. He bridles under the Widow's and Miss Watson's attempts to 'sivilize' him, as even Tom insists he become respectable. Then, Huck's father, Pap, shows up, determined to steal Huck's fortune. When things don't go Pap's way, he kidnaps Huck. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets Jim, Miss Watson's slave,...

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

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.