Books like Walking the road to freedom by Jeri Ferris

Cora, a woman enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, partners with a new slave named Caesar to flee the South. Their daring escape follows a literal underground network of tunnels that mirrors the perilous journey of countless fugitive slaves toward freedom.

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Teenage slave Isabel navigates the American Revolution in New York, using her wit and the help of a Patriot spy to fight for her and her sister’s freedom.

Dog Ranger time‑travels to 19th‑century Maryland, where he joins a young girl’s escape from slavery to the North.

Jeri Ferris’s biography chronicles Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery in the South and her courageous mission to free other Black slaves through the Underground Railroad to the North.

This book tells the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence -- including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York -- Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring -- full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage -- and significant -- the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family. - Publisher.

A touching diary of a twelve‑year‑old slave girl’s journey from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catherine’s, Canada, via the Underground Railroad.

An illustrated biography in English and Spanish that follows Sojourner Truth—from escaping slavery to becoming a celebrated advocate for women’s rights and racial equality in the United States.

Harriet Tubman’s life—from her birth into slavery to her daring escape, pioneering Underground Railroad missions, and wartime rescue work—unfolds as a powerful biography of courage and perseverance.