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  2. Flee North - Wikipedia

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    Flee North is a biography of Thomas Smallwood (1801–1883), a man who helped hundreds of African Americans escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.The author, Scott Shane, makes the claim that Smallwood was the first to coin the term "underground railroad" in a letter published in 1842.

  3. Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. It was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2011 and received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators in 2012. [ 1 ]

  4. True North (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Set in 1850s America, it is a story about the Underground Railroad. Afrika, a slave girl from Virginia, and Lucy, an independent girl constricted by Boston society, take different paths in life, with Lucy exploring her family's history, and Afrika desperately searching for freedom, narrowly escaping capture.

  5. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper.

  6. Rail transport in fiction - Wikipedia

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    4.50 from Paddington (book; film and TV adaptations) – a Miss Marple story. A passenger on one train is witness to a murder being committed on another train. The Adventure of the Lost Locomotive – a Solar Pons story about a disappearing train on the Great Northern Railway. Anna Karenina (book) – by Leo Tolstoy. Train travel is arguably ...

  7. The Underground Railroad Finale Recap: Mabel's Fate ... - AOL

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    Motherhood in all its forms is a major theme on The Underground Railroad. Just as she does in Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Cora spends the majority of Amazon Prime’s limited ...

  8. ‘The Underground Railroad’ has strong performances, but fails ...

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    View Article The post ‘The Underground Railroad’ has strong performances, but fails to deliver appeared first on TheGrio. ... The Book of Negroes (CBC) 2015. Birth of a Nation (Movie) 2016 ...

  9. Category : Templates for railway lines of the United States

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