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Freedom Roads

Searching for the Underground Railroad

by Hansen, Joyce & McGowan, Gary

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One True Friend

by Hansen, Joyce & Hahn, Mary Downing

Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share t...

Bury me not in a land of slaves

African-Americans in the time of Reconstruction

by Hansen, Joyce

An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and othe...

Women of Hope

African Americans Who Made a Difference

by Hansen, Joyce

Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African-American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

by Hansen, Joyce

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

The Captive

by Hansen, Joyce

When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African...

Out from this place

by Hansen, Joyce

A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emanci...

Which way freedom?

by Hansen, Joyce

Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

Yellow Bird and me

by Hansen, Joyce

Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.