"Live and Learn" Weekend Book Selections

The Pennsylvania Tourism Office is encouraging participation in the Quest for Freedom Live and Learn Weekends. The weekends provide an educational and engaging visitor experience that’s rooted in the Underground Railroad and Civil War communities in Pennsylvania.

For more information about the Quest for Freedom and Live and Learn Weekends, visit www.visitpa.com/freedom.


Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as told by Levi Coffin and William Still
Coffin and Still’s works include some of the classic escape narratives, including the stories of Henry Box Brown.
$14.95
My Confederate Kinfolk: a 21st-century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots
My Confederate Kinfolk examines the origins of some of our most deeply ingrained notions about what makes a family black or white.
$25.00
Song Yet Sung
Historical Fiction
In the days before the Civil War, a group of slaves breaks free in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope.
$15.00
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Lincoln and the Triumph of Anti-Slavery Politics
The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the president and the most famous black man in America.
$16.95