What Was the Underground Railroad?

I love reading the "Who Was..." and "What Was…" books, even as an adult. This story was really interesting and I learned about some people (who I had never heard of before) that escaped slavery. One person escaped by being mailed in a giant box to the North. Also, I had no idea how involved Quakers......more

Part of a children’s educational series, it was still educational for me and provided some real stories of successful escapes.......more

Read as part of a series of these books I'm reading with my kids. There is some repeat from the books on Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. The real value in this volume comes in the final third, where it tells a few stories of slaves who found freedom by using the railroad, as well as some of t......more

This book focused on stories from real underground railroad travelers. They tell stories about close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and unending sacrifices slaves made for freedom. This book is great for young readers to understand history. Slavery has been around for a......more

Alright Since not much is known about the underground railroad because it's operation was kept so secret, this book gives some stories of people who escaped slavery and those who helped them escape. Pretty good......more