Underground to Canada

Julilly was taken from her mother's arms and moved to The Riley Plantation in Mississippi, where she meets Liza, an injured girl who needs help making it to the land of the free-Canada.

After a week or so on the plantation, Alexander Ross, an abolitionist from Canada, arrives disguised as a bird watcher to free the two girls along with Lester and Adam.

[5] Due to the use of the word nigger in the novel, many parents found the book upsetting and feared it would contribute to an emergence of racism in the classroom.

[7] Those who disagreed with the novel being taught in their children's classrooms disliked the image that it gave black people[8] and argued that it spoke too lightly of slavery.

Lawrence Hill, the introductory speaker in the 25th Anniversary Edition of the book, agreed that it was a lighter speculation of a racist history, but that it also was written in a way for young readers to understand the barbaric situation.