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Beacon to Freedom: The Story of a Conductor on the Underground Railroad (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
Beacon to Freedom The Story of a Conductor on the Underground Railroad - Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books Author:Jenna Glatzer Reverend John Rankin is credited with providing safety through the Underground Railroad to more than 2,000 people as they tried to escape slavery. Not as well-known as Harriet Tubman's story to most readers, Beacon to Freedom recounts in an illlustrated, nonfiction narrative how Rankin guided runaways across the wide Ohio River with a light in h... more »is window, giving them hope in a time of great fear and danger.« less