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Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002.

Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom / - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, �1993. - 151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148) and index.

Slavery in America: Somersett -- Quaker protest -- A Prince -- A Vanished slave and his return -- A Kidnapped child -- Jenny Slew -- Running-aways: Elizabeth Freeman -- The Right of Chloe -- Advertisements -- The Gabriel Prosser uprising -- Josiah Henson, running-away and guide -- A Slave -- The Nat Turner Rebellion -- Some conductors on the Underground Railroad -- Eliza -- Isabella, Sojourner -- The Captain of the Pearl -- Solomon Northup -- Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey -- The Brave conductor -- "All right, sir!" -- Exodus to freedom: Anthony Burns -- A Mother's despair -- A Slave from Missouri -- A Kentucky runaway -- Alexander Ross, down from Canada -- Jackson, of Alabama -- Wisdom -- An Unnamed fugitive -- Three fugitives -- Exodus -- A Proclamation -- Deliverance -- The Tide of freedom.

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

ISBN: 0394828739 9780394828732 0394928733 (lib. bdg.) 9780394928739 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 89019988

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Underground railroad--Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Juvenile literature.
Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slaves.
Underground Railroad.
Slavery--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Juvenile works.

LC Class. No.: E450 / .H23 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7/115