Slavery
Harriet Tubman late 1800's 
Quilts were often used to convey secret messages to
travelers
along the Underground Railroad.
Childrens' Literature About Slavery
A Dear America book- A Picture
of Freedom The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David
A. Adler
A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass by David Adler
A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David Adler
A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David Adler
Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner
Abe Lincoln: The Young Years by Keith Brandt
Abraham Lincoln: President of a Divided Country
by Carol Greene
Amos Fortune:
Free Man Brady by Jean Fritz
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
by Faith Ringgold (Illustrator),
The Ballad of Belle Dorcas by William H. Hooks
Barefoot: Escape
on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole,
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Belle Dorcus
by William Hooks
The Blue and
the Gray by Eve Bunting
Cecil's Story
by George Ella Lyon
Charley Waters goes to Gettysbury by Susan
Sinnott
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Civil War on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne
Dear America
A Picture of Freedom The Diary of Clotee A Slave Girl
Diary of a Drummer
Boy by Marlene Targ Brill, Michael Garland (illustrator)
The Drinking Gourd: A
Story of the Underground Railroad (An I Can Read Book)
by F. N. Monjo, Fred Brenner
(Illustrator)
Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War by Ann Turner, Mark Hess
(illustrator)
Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman (Step into Reading, Step 3)
by Monica Kulling, Teresa Flavin (Illustrator)
Family by Dolores Johnson
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery by William Miller, Cedric
Lucas (Illustrator)
Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester, Rod Brown (Illustrator)
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
Honest Abe by Edith Kunhardt
. . . If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern
...If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore
...If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
A Journey to Freedom: A story of the Underground Railroad
by Courtni C. Wright, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
Jump Ship to Freedom
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of the Gettysburg Address
by Jean Fritz
The Last Safe House by Barbara Greenwood
Letters from the Underground Railroad by Elvira Woodruff
The Little House Virginia by Lee Burton's
Minty - A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
Nettie's Trip South by Ann Turner, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi
A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee by David A. Adler
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
The Promise Quilt by Candice F. Ransom, Ellen Beier (Illustrator)
Red Legs: A Drummer Boy of the Civil War by Ted Levin
Seaward Born by Lea Wait
Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
Underground to Canada (Runaway to Freedom) by Barbara Smucker
The Wagon by Tony Johnston, James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
by Ann McGovern, Richard M. Powers (Illustrator)
Young Abraham Lincoln, Log Cabin President by Andrew Woods
This page last updated February 2005
