The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Author: Nathan Hale
Book 5 in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series
Pages: 128
Published: 2015
Age: 8+
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north without being caught or killed, she'd be free.
Facing enormous danger, Araminta made it, and once free, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman. Tubman spent the rest of her life helping slaves run away like she did, every time taking her life in her hands. Nathan Hale tells her incredible true-life story with the humor and sensitivity he's shown in each of the Hazardous Tales—perfect for reluctant readers, history buffs and classroom discussions.
About the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Books in series order
- 1.One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale(2012)
- 2.Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Tale(2012)
- 3.Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale(2013)
- 4.Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale(2014)
- 5.The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale(2015)
- 6.Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale(2016)
- 7.Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid(2017)
- 8.Lafayette!(2018)
- 9.Major Impossible(2019)
- 10.Blades of Freedom: a Louisiana Purchase Tale(2020)
- 11.Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale(2021)
- 12.Above the Trenches(2023)
Reading age: 8+ years
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.
But who was Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger and more heavily armed than they were? Find the answers to these questions, as well as many more stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales – a graphic novel series for middle-grade readers dedicated to telling the most thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!