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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written." -- The New Republic Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own. With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, acclaimed author Kate Messner and coauthor and Brown Bookshelf contributor Gwendolyn Hooks deliver the whole truth about the Underground...
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