This young reader novel about the Underground Railroad begins when Rebecca, a twelve-year-old slave in South Carolina, hears that Grower Brown plans to sell her father to another grower. Unwilling to accept the idea of slavery any longer, she shocks her parents by declaring that she will run away, with or without them. Despite their fear, they agree to go with her on the Underground Railroad to Canada. They are led by the famous Harriet Tubman, aka Moses, the tiny but fiercely courageous black woman whom Rebecca comes to love. On their journey north, Rebecca and her family rely on the bravery of freed blacks and learn to trust white abolitionists. A Canadian ornithologist, Alexander Ross, known as the Birdman, stumbles upon the family in Tennessee and helps them make their way north on the Mississippi River. The family hides in coffins, travels on a steamboat, and crosses Illinois in a blizzard by pumping hand carts on a rail line -- finally crossing the border to a free life in Canada. Railroad of Courage offers young readers a fast-paced story of adventure. With the introduction of historical figures, the novel explores the injustice of slavery and the moral imagination of runaways and those who helped them to freedom.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- jC813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781553805168 9781553805144
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.R623
- LCCN Item number
- R353 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (162 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00975102 (OCoLC)989789878 (CaOOCEL)453931
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Chapter One Deciding 8
- Chapter Two Stepping into the River 18
- Chapter Three The Bayou of Death 24
- Chapter Four My Uncle Josiah 33
- Chapter Five The Zigzag Route 41
- Chapter Six Travelling as the Dead 55
- Chapter Seven Delilah 67
- Chapter Eight The Steamboat 75
- Chapter Nine Disaster on Board 84
- Chapter Ten Saving an Enemy 92
- Chapter Eleven Underground Ferry to Freedom 100
- Chapter Twelve The Handcars 108
- Chapter Thirteen Delayed 114
- Chapter Fourteen Waiting in Chicago 123
- Chapter Fifteen Learning to Read 132
- Chapter Sixteen The New York Central Railroad 141
- Chapter Seventeen The Secret Passage 148
- Chapter Eighteen Dawn in Canada 156
- Later Events in the fight for equality 162
- Acknowledgements 166
- About the authors 168
- Back cover 174
