Underground Railroad, The
Publication Information
Author:  Bial, Raymond	Illustrator:  Bial, Raymond
Title:  Underground Railroad, The	Date:  1995
Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Co.	City:  Boston
ISBN, paperback:  0-395-69937-1	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    nonfiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
The photos and illustrations and text combine into a wonderful teaching tool on slavery. Several readers commented on how much new information they gleaned from this book of nonfiction. The book includes a timeline.
Teaching Ideas:
Teachers may want to excerpt from this or assign the book in its entirety. It would fit well in combination with books on Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, or John Brown. Students may want to study a map in conjunction with the book (one good one is included) or they may want to discuss the Quakers and others who chose civil disobedience during the slavery years as some of the characters in Jip by Katherine Paterson. www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/; www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Ethnic Groups > Quaker Family > oral history History > time period > 19th Century History > region > U.S. history > well-known people > Tubman, Harriet History > topic > war > Civil War > Underground Railroad History > region > Ohio Social Studies > sociology > social issues > civil disobedience History > region > U.S. history > well-known people > Brown, John History > region > U.S. history > well-known people > Douglass, Frederick

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