Books like Freedom Run by Paul McCusker

John Bunyan’s classic allegory follows the spiritual journey of Christian, who overcomes trials such as the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair to reach Beulah Land.

Eleven‑year‑old Levi of Pennsylvania writes letters to his older brother Austin while living with Miss Amelia, whose mother died in childbirth. When Jupiter’s sister Darcy is kidnapped by slave catchers, Levi and Jupiter flee the state to seek her, confronting the perilous realities of the Underground Railroad.

When a fellow slave is murdered, Sadie and her family flee the plantation and seek freedom through the Underground Railroad for a chance at a safer future.

During a visit to the Anacostia Museum, Emma is transported back to the era of slavery and must use the Underground Railroad to reach freedom in Canada.

Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony share tea in 1904, reflecting on their lifelong fight for freedom and women’s rights, offering a brief but vivid glimpse into the lives of two pioneering African‑American activists.

Twelve‑year‑old Elias journeys to Mammoth Cave to seek a cure for consumption, only to uncover a hidden network of fugitive slaves journeying along the Underground Railroad in Kentucky.

An inspiring true story of a WWII pilot’s survival, resilience, and redemption, examined through detailed battlefield context and human courage.

A 12‑year‑old girl, paralyzed and drawn to an Indiana museum, discovers ghosts that transport her back to 19th‑century Kentucky, where she must help a son of a freed slave move along the Underground Railroad.

A ten‑year‑old former slave, Corey Birdsong, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding a mother and daughter to his family's farm in Amherstburg, Ontario, in 1859.

Thirteen‑year‑old Libby, working on a Mississippi River steamboat for the Underground Railroad, hunts a swindler who robbed her father and seeks to reunite fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

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.

John Parker, a former slave turned prosperous Ripley, Ohio businessman, bravely risked his life to aid fellow slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad.

A young farmgirl escapes slavery, journeying north on the Underground Railroad to find freedom.