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"The operation of the Underground Railroad did not look the same to everyone involved--understanding depends on perspective. In the Viewpoints and Perspectives series, more advanced readers will come to understand different viewpoints by learning the context, significance, and details of the escape network through the eyes of three different people, while engaging with text through questions sparking critical thinking. Books include timeline, glossary,...
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"The events surrounding the Underground Railroad did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a slave, a slave owner, and a conductor on the railroad as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as readers engage and read aloud. This book includes a table of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Presents the full text of the Gettysburg Address in both its original version and in a translated version using everyday language. Describes the events that led to Lincoln's famous speech and its significance through history"--Provided by publisher.
9) Slavery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"'To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, a house, or table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold - a child sold from his mother, a wife from her husband. To be considered not human, but a thing that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's child, a thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you. To be a slave. To know that despite the suffering and deprivation, that...
10) Slavery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explores the history of slavery in the United States.
12) Abolitionists
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Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Briefly describes the accomplishments of American abolitionists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries as they struggled to end slavery.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discover the world of one of America's most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the challenges he faced along the way.
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Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Delves into the history of how slave labor helped build the US economy and many historic structures, as well as how people benefited in different ways from the practice of slavery"--Publisher's website.
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Bendon, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"In the early 19th century, abolitionists began to organize. While some gave speeches and wrote articles, others turned to violence. It took a way and an amendment to the constitution to end slavery, but it was abolitionists who helped blaze the trail to freedom."--
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Purple Toad Pub Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Underground Railroad was not a transportation system with metal tracks and whistling trains that zipped along a grid of tracks through tunnels below the ground. Instead, this system was an organized network of people who--in utmost secrecy--helped others escape the bonds of slavery. The routes to freedom were filled with danger, but the risks were worth it. Climb aboard to travel back in time and find out how this system of "passengers," "conductors,"...