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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the experiences of Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped into slavery and suffered through twelve years of bondage before being rescued from the Louisiana cotton plantation by friends from New York.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Author
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes abolitionist Harriet Tubman's years as a slave, her escape, and her work as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, through which she helped more than three hundred other slaves gain their freedom, and also discusses her experiences during the Civil War, her efforts in the women's rights movement, and the creation of the Harriet Tubman Home.
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