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The fourth book in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series explores a question that has long captured the imagination of quilters and historians alike: Did stationmasters of the Underground Railroad use quilts to signal to fugitive slaves?
In her first novel, The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverini wove quilting lore with tales from the World War II home front. Now, following Round Robin and The Cross-Country Quilters,...
In her first novel, The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverini wove quilting lore with tales from the World War II home front. Now, following Round Robin and The Cross-Country Quilters,...
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In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
50) River runs deep
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Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.
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Black historian and professor John Washington has been summoned to his hometown just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Reluctantly leaving his white lover, Judith, a psychiatrist in Philadelphia, he travels to the small western Pennsylvania town for Old Jack Crawley, a friend of his late father, Moses Washington. Old Jack helped raise John, and now he is dying. Seeing Old Jack, John is drawn back to his childhood, to the mystery of Moses and his death....
58) Harriet Tubman
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Simple text offers a biography of Harriet Tubman, discussing her life as a slave and her work with the Underground Railroad. Features photographs, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.
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