Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom

Underground

Author	Shane W. Evans
Illustrator	Shane W. Evans
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date	January 18, 2011
Awards	Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators
ISBN	9781596435384

Underground is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. It was published by Roaring Brook Press in 2011 and received the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators in 2012.^[1] The book depicts a 19th century African-American family of slaves as they escape from a plantation and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.

Awards and Honors

School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011^[2]
Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators (2012)
American Library Association Notable Children's Books (2012)^[3]
NCTE/CLA Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts (2012)^[4]

References

↑ “Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present”, American Library Association
↑ “SLJ Best Books 2011 Nonfiction”, School Library Journal
↑ “2012 Notable Children's Books list”, American Library Association.
↑ “2014 Notable Children's Books in the English Language Arts”, National Council of Teachers of English.

Underground Railroad

People	William L. Chaplin Levi Coffin Richard Dillingham Calvin Fairbank Thomas Garrett Laura Smith Haviland Daniel Hughes William Cooper Nell Harriet Forten Purvis Robert Purvis John Rankin Hetty Reckless Gerrit Smith William Still Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Turner Torrey Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Delia Webster

Places	List of Underground Railroad sites houses churches Levi Coffin House Bialystoker Synagogue Bilger's Rocks Wilson Bruce Evans House Cyrus Gates Farmstead Sites in Indiana Allen Chapel Town Clock Church F. Julius LeMoyne House John Rankin House Gerrit Smith Estate John Freeman Walls Historic Site

Events	Pearl incident (1848) Jerry Rescue (1851) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852 book) Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856 book) Oberlin–Wellington Rescue (1858) Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

Topics	Songs of the Underground Railroad Abolitionism in the United States Abolitionism opponents of slavery African-American opponents publications Fugitive slaves Fugitive slave laws 1850 Quilts Slave catcher The Underground Railroad Records (1872 book)

Related	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932 book) A Woman Called Moses (1978 miniseries) Roots of Resistance (1989 documentary) Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2013 board game) Underground (2016 TV series)

See also: Slavery in the United States and Slavery in Canada

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