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Life on the Underground Railroad / Sally Senzell Isaacs.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E450 .I8 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isaacs, Sally Senzell, 1950-
- Series:
- Picture the past.
- Picture the past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile literature.
- Underground Railroad.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Fugitive slaves.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Heinemann Library, [©2002].
- Summary:
- Provides information about the lives of slaves in the pre-Civil War south, and looks at the operation of the Underground Railroad, a network of people who helped slaves escape to freedom in the north.
- Contents:
- Underground railroad
- Slaves
- Plantation
- Escape
- Secret messages
- Into the night
- Helpers
- A child's view
- Hiding places
- Food
- Catching slaves
- On the move
- Clothes for hiding
- Freedom.
- Notes:
- Some words are printed in bold and can be found in the glossary to expain what they mean.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 158810253X (hbk.)
- 9781588102539
- 1588104184
- 9781588104182
- OCLC:
- 46353274
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