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Juvenile & Young Adult Literature:
- Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation By Patrice Sherman. Juvenile. Juv 973.714 She
- Box: Henry mails himself to freedom By Carole Boston Weatherford. Juvenile. Juv 306.362 Wea
- Dark sky rising: Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow
By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Juvenile.
Juv 973.049 Gat - Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the dawn of liberty
By Tonya Bolden. Juvenile.
Juv 973.7 Bol - Free at last! Stories and songs of Emancipation
By Doreen Rappaport. Juvenile. Juv 973.049 Rap - Freedom in Congo Square
By Carole Boston Weatherford. Juvenile.
Juv 976.335 Wea - Freedom roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad
By Joyce Hansen. Juvenile. Juv 973.7 Han - Hammering for freedom: The William Lewis story
By Rita L. Hubbard. Juvenile.
Juv 976.903 Hub - Harriet Tubman
By Andrea Davis Pinkney. Juvenile.
Juv 920.72 Pin - Let it shine: Stories of Black women freedom fighters
Andrea Davis Pinkney. Juvenile. Juv 323 Pin - Like a bird: The art of the American slave song
By Cynthia Grady. Juvenile.
Juv 782.253 Gra - Many thousand gone: African Americans from slavery to freedom
By Virginia Hamilton. Juvenile. Juv 973.7 Ham - Moses: When Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
By Carole Boston Weatherford. Juvenile. Juv Bio Tub - North star to freedom: The story of the Underground Railroad
By Gena K. Gorrell. Juvenile. Juv 973.7 Gor - The price of freedom: How one town stood up to slavery
Judith Bloom Fradin. Juvenile.
Juv 973.7 Fra - So tall within: Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom
By Gary D. Schmidt. Juvenile.
Juv Bio Tru - Stamped: Racism, antiracism, and you
By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Juvenile/Young Adult.
YA 305.8 Rey - Traveling the freedom road: From slavery and the Civil War through Reconstruction
By Linda Barrett Osborne. Juvenile.
Juv 973.7 Osb - The underground abductor: An abolitionist tale
By Nathan Hale. Juvenile.
Juv 741.5 Hal - William Still and his freedom stories: The father of the underground railroad by Don Tate. Juvenile. Juv 973.711 Tat
- Words set me free: The story of young Frederick Douglass By Lesa Cline-Ransome. Juvenile. Juv Bio Dou
