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March For Further Reading

Bial, Raymond, The Underground Railroad, Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Stirring photographs accompany eye-witness accounts of the perilous journeys taken on the Underground Railroad, the term for a series of sites that operated as safe havens for slaves escaping to freedom in the North.

Foote, Shelby, The Civil War: A Narrative, Vintage, 1986.

In this trilogy that was adapted by Foote and Ken Burns into a popular PBS miniseries, Foote chronicles the historical facts of the war and brings a novelist’s sensibility to his characterization of many of those who were affected by it.

Harrold, Stanley, The American Abolitionists, Longman, 2000.

This work, part of the Seminar Studies in History series, traces the abolitionist movement in the United States from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the end of the Civil War in 1865. Included in the text are...
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