I Came As a Stranger: The Underground Railroad

I Came As a Stranger: The Underground RailroadHonor Book for the Society of School Librarians Internationals Best Book Award Social Studies, Grades 7 12 Winner of 2005 Childrens Nautilus Book Awards (Non fiction) Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north to freedom in Canada with the help of the Underground Railroad. It was neither underground nor was it a railroad, and was most remarkable for its lack of formal organization, so cloaked in

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