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United States Historical Fiction
Slavery (1771-1864)
F is For Freedom
by Roni Schotter
JF SCHOTTER, R.
When ten-year-old Manda interrupts a midnight delivery, she discovers her parents' involvement in the Underground Railroad and makes her own contribution to a fugitive slave's freedom.
I, Dred Scott: A Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott
by Shelia P. Moses
JF MOSES, S.
With a foreword by Dred Scott's great-grandson, Shelia P. Moses' stunning story chronicles Dred Scott's experiences as a slave, as a plaintiff in one of the most important legal cases in American history, and -- at last -- as a free man.
In the Eye of the Storm
by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
JF KIMMEL, E
With the threat of further violence from pro-slavery border ruffians ever-present, nine-year-old Bill must run the farm, even after his father comes home to recuperate from his knife wound, and go to school.
Mingo
by Lenice Strohmeier
JF STROHMEIER.
In Massachusetts in 1771, seven-year-old Olivia learns about freedom from her father's slave, Mingo, who was promised that he'd be freed when the tide was low enough that he could walk to a certain spot offshore.
The Personal Correspondence of Hannah Brown and Sarah Smith: The Underground Railroad, 1858
by Nancy LeSourd
JF LESOURD, N.
Letters between two young girls, one from Goose Creek, Virginia, and her friend living in Philadelphia, chronicle their involvement in helping an escaped slave travel via the Underground Railroad to join her father in Canada.
Soon Be Free
by Lois Ruby
JF RUBY, L.
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business. In a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.
The Spirit and Gilly Bucket
by Maurine F. Dahlberg
JF DAHLBERG, M.
In 1859, when Gilly's father goes to search for gold in the Rocky Mountains, the eleven-year-old is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in Virginia, where she befriends one of her uncle's slave girls, finds out about the Underground Railroad, and discovers that people are not always exactly as they seem.
Trembling Earth
by Kim L. Siegelson
JF SIEGELSON, K.
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
Trouble Don't Last
by Shelley Pearsall
JF PEARSALL, S.
Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses
by Harriette Robinet
JF ROBINET, H.
On the way to California with their kind new master, thirteen-year-old Jacob, his mother, and other slaves are caught up in adventures that include trying to stop a plot to help the South secede from the Union.
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