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A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

Describes the life of the energetic abolitionist, including her origins as a slave in Maryland, her role as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad, her service to the Union during the Civil War, and her role in establishing an old-age home for Afro-Americans.

An illustrated collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American slaves.

A biography of the black woman who escaped from slavery and became a well-known figure in the underground railroad as she led scores of slaves north to freedom.

This "American Moses" led more than three hundred slaves via the Underground Railroad out of Southern bondage to freedom in the North.

A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African chief, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts, where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty years old and became a respected citizen.