"Live and Learn" Book Selections

"Live and Learn" 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.


Inheriting the Trade
In 2001, at age forty-seven, Thomas Norman DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in United States history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas.
$16.00
Slavery and the Making of America
This book offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves.
$24.99
What This Cruel War Was Over
Letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers take the reader inside the minds of Civil War soldiers-black and white, Northern and Southern-as they fought and marched across a divided country.
$15.95