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1. The Best Books of the 21st Century: Top 20 Reads - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2024/08/01/the-best-books-of-the-21st-century-top-20-reads/

   And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she (...)

2. Thank You for Another Great Year! - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2018/07/17/thank-you-for-another-great-year/

   Weaver Memorial Lecture featuring Colson Whitehead:  The bestselling author of  The Underground Railroad , winner of the (...)

3. Colonial & Antebellum - African American Women's History Resources at Rubenstein Library - LibGuides

   https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289647&p=1933845

   The collection contains the autobiography of the Reverend John Rankin and the biography of John Parker, an ex-slave who Rankin worked with on (...)

4. Textbooks on Reserve in Perkins and Lilly - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2018/01/11/textbooks-reserve-perkins-lilly/

   For questions related to textbook reserves at Lilly Library, please contact: lilly-requests@duke.edu Post navigation Previous Post New Service: (...)

5. Networks for Freedom - The Devil's Tale

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2010/07/12/networks-for-freedom/

   Lee writes, “these white and black anti-slavery men and women used sophisticated peaceful means—persuasion, law, philanthropy, colonization, and (...)

6. What to Read this Month: January 2018 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2018/01/17/read-month-january-2018/

   Post navigation Previous Post Colson Whitehead, Author of “The Underground Railroad,” to Speak at Duke Feb. 7 Next Post Take (...)

7. What to Read this Month: December 2016 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2016/12/08/read-month-december-2016/

   Here are a selection. The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (appears on almost every list).  

8. What to Read this Month: July 2021 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2021/07/14/what-to-read-this-month-july-2021/

   In the 1850s, Harriet Tubman, strategically brilliant and uncannily prescient, rescued some seventy enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern (...)

9. Resources on Racial Injustice and White Supremacy - Divinity eReserves - LibGuides at Duke Universit

   https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=954982&p=7600679

   Much has changed in the 150 years since the city’s beginnings as a depot on the railroad between Raleigh and Hillsborough. Today, (...)

10. Never Done: Research Opportunities in the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection · Five Hundred Years of Women

    https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/essays/never-done

    Nor, of course, are women working only on the material aspects of books: Lucretia Civitalis is translating the piece of wisdom literature known (...)