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Author: Virginia Hamilton

📘 Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

First publish date: 1993

Authors: Virginia Hamilton

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