In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.

They are little known to history: Sydney Howard Gay, an abolitionist newspaper editor; Louis Napoleon, a furniture polisher; Charles B. Ray, a black minister. At great risk they operated the underground railroad in New York, a city whose businesses, banks, and politics were deeply enmeshed in the slave economy. In secret coordination with black dockworkers who alerted them to the arrival of fugitives and with counterparts in Norfolk, Wilmington, Philadelphia,...

After the death of her parents and losing the family farm, Emily Harrison takes a job as a governess in Confederate Virginia, where she falls for Alexander Hunt, a secret Quaker leader of Rebel partisans who shares her antislavery beliefs.

Continues the experiences of Jamie, who in 1830 after escaping slavery passes himself off as a wealthy white silversmith, only to risk everything to save a beloved servant who has been captured and sold in the South.

Fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others in the United States during the mid-1800's, the reader makes plot choices based on situations real peopled faced to escape slavery.

Follows the lives of fraternal twins who were separated at birth, but still lived in the same Minnesota town, Stillwater, outside Canada and near the Mississippi that becomes an important stop on the Underground Railroad as the country goes to war.

In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.