Never caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin, 2019)

BTSB #: 294823 Available

Dewey: 306.3/BAges: 9-13   
AR: 7.9 MG Lexile: 1090 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Judge, Oney Washington, George,|d1732-1799 - Relations with slaves Washington, Martha,|d1731-1802 - Relations with slaves Slaves - United States - Biography Fugitive slaves - United States - Biography African American women - Biography Slavery - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History|y18th century

Summary: The eye-opening narrative of George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life.

Ona Judge outwits the Washingtons : an enslaved woman fights for freedom [Encounter. Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books]by Hooks, Gwendolyn 

BTSB Prebound(Capstone Editions, 2019)

BTSB #: 462622 Available

Dewey: 306.3/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 700 F&P: S

Genres:

Subjects: Judge, Oney Washington, George,|d1732-1799 - Relations with slaves Washington, Martha,|d1731-1802 - Relations with slaves Slaves - United States - Biography African American women - Biography Fugitive slaves - United States - Biography Slavery - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History|y18th century

Summary: Soon after American colonists had won independence from Great Britain, Ona Judge was fighting for her own freedom from one of America's most famous founding fathers, George Washington. George and Martha Washington valued Ona as one of their most skilled and trustworthy slaves, but she would risk everything to achieve complete freedom. Born into slavery at Mount Vernon, Ona seized the opportunity to escape when she was brought to live in the President's Mansion in Philadelphia. Ona fled to New Hampshire and started a new life. But the Washingtons wouldn't give up easily. After her escape, Ona became the focus of a years-long manhunt, led by America's first president.

Quien fue Harriet Tubman? [Quien fue--? (Who was--?)]by McDonough, Yona Zeldis 

PaperbackSPANISH(Santillana USA, 2016)

BTSB #: 624119 Available

Dewey: 973.7/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG

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Subjects: Tubman, Harriet,|d1820?-1913 Slaves - United States - Biography Underground Railroad Spanish language - Reading materials

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In Spanish.

Quien fue Harriet Tubman? [Quien fue--? (Who was--?)]by McDonough, Yona Zeldis 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Santillana, 2016)

BTSB #: 624138 Temp OS

Dewey: 973.7/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG

Genres: Spanish Bilingual

Subjects: Tubman, Harriet,|d1820?-1913 Slaves - United States - Biography Underground Railroad Spanish language - Reading materials

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad. In Spanish.

Stitch by stitch : Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom by Schofield-Morrison, Connie 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2021)

BTSB #: 788375 Available

Dewey: 306.3/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.7 LG F&P: W

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Subjects: Keckley, Elizabeth,|dapproximately 1818-1907 Lincoln, Mary Todd,|d1818-1882 - Relations with African Americans African American women - Biography Women slaves - United States - Biography Dressmakers - United States - Biography Slaves - United States - Biography

Summary: A talented seamstress, born enslaved in 1818, bought freedom for herself and her son.