Books like Freedom song by Sally M. Walker

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic expose the brutal reality of American slavery, following the devout slave Tom as he faces injustice and moral dilemmas—an influential work that stirred Northern anti‑slavery sentiment before the Civil War.

In 1849, Virginia slave Henry “Box” Brown seizes a daring escape by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia, illustrating the perilous ingenuity of the Underground Railroad.

In ‘The House of Dies Drear,’ a Black family discovers that their new home, a former Underground Railroad stop, is haunted by secrets that force them to confront their past and the legacy of slavery.

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.

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.

"In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors--many of them teenagers--loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring hundreds more. But the truly remarkable part of the story was still to come. Surviving black sailors were taken to a nearby base and ordered to return to the same exact work. More than 200 of the men refused unless the unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. The sailors called it standing up for justice. The Navy called it mutiny and threatened that anyone not immediately returning to work would face the firing squad. Most of the men agreed to back down. Fifty did not. This is a dramatic story of prejudice and injustice in America's armed forces during World War II, and a provocative look at a controversial group of young sailors who took a stand that helped change the course of history"--Jacket flap. In July 1944, an explosion at a California navy base killed hundreds of sailors loading munitions. Fifty black seamen, refusing to resume work in unsafe conditions, were charged with mutiny. The text contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.

A touching tale of a young slave girl, Great Aunt Lucy, who learns the secret quilt code to guide herself, her brother Albert, and other enslaved people toward freedom on the Underground Railroad.

A Jewish girl’s heart‑warming escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad, narrated by her treasured rag doll.

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.

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery bus boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

A young girl, writing letters for her blind stepmother, is haunted by her unknowing part in Nat Turner's 1831 Southampton rebellion, a pivotal moment in America's slave history.

Silent Thunder follows eleven‑year‑old Summer and her thirteen‑year‑old brother Rosco, slaves on a Virginia plantation, as they recount how the Civil War changes their world.