Recommended Reading, Underground Railroad
Here are a few books that we recommend:
- Bound for Cannaan, The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
- Bound For The Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait Of An American Hero By Kate Clifford Larson, see also www.harriettubmanbiography.com
- Beyond the River, The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad by Ann Hagedorn
- I’ve Got a Home in the Glory Land, A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost, see also www.homeingloryland.com
- The Town that Started the Civil War by Nate Brandt
- The Underground Railroad in Michigan by Carol E. Mull
- Underground Railroad Official National Park Handbook includes essays by Larry Gara, Brenda Stevenson and C. Peter Ripley. You may purchase by mail from the Superintendent of Documents, US Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
For additional reading lists:
- Friends of Freedom Society - The Ohio Underground Railroad
- Ottawa Citizen’s Tracks to Freedom,Canada and the Underground Railroad posts a reading list and African American Spirituals sung by Norma Blacke Bourdeau
- Motherland Connextions, Inc. -- A tour company in Niagara, NY that's done their research!
- Juvenile Reading List from the National Park Service
Online Reading:
- Exploring a Common Past, Researching and Interpreting the UGRR by the National Park Service
- Oberlin Archives a bounty of resources on Oberlin’s history
- For the writings of Theodore Weld
- Actual writing by slave and slave holders – reprints of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of A Thousand Witnesses
- Martin Delaney‘s story
- Library of Congress - read slave narratives
