Important Resources for Underground Railroad History

Institutions

• African American Museum in Philadelphia – 701 Arch St, Philadelphia
• Library Company of Philadelphia– 1314 Locust St
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania – 1300 Locust St
• Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University – 1330 Polett Walk
• Philadelphia History Museum at Atwater Kent – 15 S 7th St

Picture Books

• Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky – Faith Ringgold Picture Books
• Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky – Faith Ringgold
• Ballad of the Underground Railroad – Charles L. Blockson
• Follow the Drinking Gourd – Jeanette Winter
• From Slave Ship to Freedom Road – Julius Lester
• Harriet and the Promised Land – Jacob Lawrence
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad (Graphic History) – Michael Martin
• Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad – Kadir Nelson
• Moses – Carole Boston Weatherford
• Story of the Underground Railroad (coloring book) – Peter F. Colpeland
• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Deborah Hopkinson

YA Books

• Bound for the North Star – Dennis Brindell Fradin
• Dear Friend: Thomas Garrett & William Still– Judith Bentley
• Free: Great Escapes from Slaver on the Underground Railroad – Lorene Cary
• Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad – David A. Adler
• … If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad – Ellen Levine
• The Underground Railroad: An Interactive History Adventure – Allison Lassieur
• The Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom – Mary Kay Carson
• Underground Railroad: Common Core Lessons – Carole Marsh

Adult Books  

• Abolitionist Sisterhood – Jean Fagan Yellin
• Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the 19th Century – P. Gabrielle Foreman
• African Americans in Pennsylvania – Joe William Trotter Jr.
• African Americans in Pennsylvania – Charles L. Blockson
• Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia – Richard Newman & James Mueller
• Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground – Ann Hagedorn
• Black Abolitionists – Benjamin Quarles
• Black Women Abolitionists – Shirley J. Yee
• Bound for Canaan – Fergus M Bordewich
• But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis – Margaret Hope Bacon
• Colonization and its Discontents – Beverly C. Tomek
• Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad – edited George & Willene Hendrick
• Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad – Betty Deramus
• Fragile Freedom – Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People – Sarah Bradford
• Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts &the Underground Railroad – Jacqueline L. Tobin
• Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad – Charles L. Blockson
• In the Shadow of the Civil War – Nat Brandt
• Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad – Larry Gara
• Narrative of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth – Sojourner Truth
• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown – Henry Box Brown
• Pennsylvania Hall – Beverly C. Tomek
• Philadelphia Guide to African American State Historical Markers – Charles L. Blockson
• Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom – Samuel Otter
• Poetry of Slavery – Marcus Wood
• The Price of a Child – Lorene Cary
• The Underground Railroad – Charles L. Blockson
• The Underground Railroad – William Still
• The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A Comprehensive History – Wilbur H. Siebert
• The Underground Railroad in American History – National Park Services
• The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania – Charles L. Blockson
• The Underground Railroad: First-Person Narratives – Charles L. Blockson
• Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia – William J. Switala
• Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania – William J. Switala
• Women & Sisters – Jean Fagan Yellin