Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 48
Cover Price: $ 15.99

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Lyrical text describes Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her North to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of slavery. This is a moving portrait of one of the most inspiring figures of the Underground Railroad--a woman who would take 19 subsequent trips back South without being caught.

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Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland and spent her years before the Civil War helping slaves escape on the Underground Railroad to freedom. A system of secret transportation known as the Underground Railroad conducted ruanway slaves from the Deep South to freedom in Canada.