The Jewel finds Violet and her Black Key society fellows preparing to seize power while fighting to secure her sister's freedom from the Duchess of the Lake.

In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.

The making of Show ways, or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry Box Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad.

A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--

Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.

As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state--

A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.