Adding product to your cart
| Author/Contributor(s): |
Wagner, Tricia Martineau
|
| Publisher: |
Globe Pequot Publishing
|
| Date: |
9/14/2015
|
| Binding: |
Paperback
|
| Condition: |
NEW
|
From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous “road” to freedom. Read about Peter Still, a former slave who came to the Philadelphia Antislavery Society in search of his family, only to discover that the man sitting in front of him was his brother. Meet the individuals who may have inspired characters in the novels Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Beloved. Learn about the bakery where Frederick Douglass was first helped to freedom. Andexperience the heart-pounding fear of a man who mailed himself north.
Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device
