Central Kansas Library System

Describes 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 forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.

Presents the life of the man who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a speaker and writer for abolition and the rights of African Americans and women, focusing on his childhood and youth as a slave.

Scans Black history from the earliest struggles for allowing free states to enter the union to Reconstruction and white resistance, profiles such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington.