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62) Path of freedom
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Quilts of love volume 3
Language
English
Description
With only a quilt to guide them, Quakers Flora Saferight and Bruce Millikan reluctantly agree to put their differences aside to safely transport a pregnant slave couple on the Underground Railroad.
67) Evvy's Civil War
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Language
English
Description
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.
68) Steal away home
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English
Description
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
Author
Series
Patchwork mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Sarah's friend Ella says she has found an old quilt in her basement that proves that her house was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When Ella disappears Sarah must unravel the history of the quilt to learn what happened.
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Series
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English
Description
"When war reaches Clarissa's back door, the trustworthy become even fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when...
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English
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In 1848 as construction begins on the first suspension bridge connecting the United States and Canada, friends Katie and Homan become winners of an important kite-flying contest testing the bridge's engineering, and they soon learn of its valuable link on the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom.
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Polish
Description
Cora jest niewolnicą w trzecim pokoleniu na plantacji bawełny w stanie Georgia i należy do najniższej kasty. Jej życie nie jest łatwe, a będzie jeszcze gorzej, bo lada moment z dziecka stanie się kobietą. Kiedy Ceasar, przybyły z Wirginni najświeższy nabytek plantatorów, opowiada jej o podziemnej kolei, oboje decydują się zaryzykować ucieczkę. Po piętach depcze im pościg, a schwytanie oznacza los gorszy od śmierci. Tytułowa kolej...
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Deutsch
Description
"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse:...
77) Kolej podziemna
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Polish
Description
"To baśń o wolności i sile ducha, niezwykła mieszanka dokumentalnej prawdy i najbardziej wymyślnej fikcji. Powieść pełna niespodzianek, radości i trwogi - wielka uczta dla każdego czytelnika. Cora jest niewolnicą w trzecim pokoleniu na plantacji bawełny w stanie Georgia i należy do najniższej kasty. Jej życie nie jest łatwe, a będzie jeszcze gorzej, bo lada moment z dziecka stanie się kobietą. Kiedy Ceasar, przybyły z Wirginii...
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