Orem Library

Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.

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

Imani, an African grasshopper, brings music to the new world when he travels aboard a slave ship.

Even though Mama is an agent on the Underground Railroad, in order to help others she must remain a slave, but she teaches her daughter the value of freedom through. a gift of love and sacrfice.

A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.

A little girl's grandfather recalls how he escaped from slavery with the help of a man who was a member of the Underground Railroad and how he planted an apple orchard in remembrance.

"The son of a blacksmith and slave learns that his father is using the rhythm of his hammering to communicate with travelers on the Underground Railroad"--

At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.

In 1820s Maryland, Frederick's mother, who is a slave on a different plantation, walks twelve miles each way for a nighttime visit with her son, during which she recounts what each mile of the journey represents. Based on the childhood of Frederick Douglass.

After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.