📚 The Underground Railroad

The routes to freedom: conductors, stations, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the risk that made every mile a battle.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject underground railroad in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave	Levi Coffin	1876	25
	The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freeman	Jermain Wesley Loguen	1859	21
	Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad	Levi Coffin	1876	21
	Let my people go	Henrietta Buckmaster	1941	13
	Freedom Train	Dorothy Sterling	1954	13
	A Picture Book Of Harriet Tubman	David A. Adler	1992	12
	Many Thousand Gone	Virginia Hamilton	1993	8
	Sketches in the history of the underground railroad	Eber M. Pettit	1879	7
	The Underground railroad in Connecticut	Horatio T. Strother	1962	7
	Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad	Marlene Targ Brill	1993	7
	Who was Harriet Tubman?	Yona Zeldis McDonough	2002	7
	Beacon to Freedom	Jenna Glatzer	2017	7
	Young Harriet Tubman	Anne Benjamin	1991	6
	Go Free or Die	Jeri Ferris	1988	5
	Get on Board	James Haskins	1993	5
	Underground Railroad	Nancy Allen	2015	5
	Disclosures and confessions of Frank. A. Wilmot, the slave thief and negro runner	Franklin A. Wilmot	1860	4
	If you travelled on the underground railway	Ellen Levine	1992	4
	The Underground Railroad	Raymond Bial	1995	4
	Escape North!	Monica Kulling	2000	4
	Harriet Tubman	Kathleen V. Kudlinski	2002	4
	Escape from slavery	Doreen Rappaport	1991	3
	North Star to Freedom	Gena K. Gorrell	1997	3
	Harriet Tubman	Norma Jean Lutz	2000	3
	Escape to freedom	Barbara Brooks Simon	2004	3
	History of the Underground Railroad	R. C. Smedley	1969	2
	Harriet Tubman	Rae Bains	2001	2
	The Underground Railroad	Allison Lassieur	2008	2
	If you traveled on the underground railroad	Unknown author	1993	1
	Wild escapade	Lisa Bingham	1996	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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