A lesson in the value of courage. Harriet Tubman was born and raised into slavery. However, she longs to be free and hopes to escape to the “promised land.” After hearing about an “underground railroad” and learning of a Quaker woman up the river who helps slaves “get on,” Harriet Tubman tells her father she is escaping. Once at the Quaker woman’s home, Harriet Tubman learns that the “underground railroad” is a route guided by “conductors” to the North. She goes forward and makes it to the main station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Once there, she is surprised to learn of the many different routes slaves are able to take to freedom. Hearing of her sister's and family’s impending sale, Harriet Tubman vows she will never be free until her family is free. Against the stationmaster’s warnings, she heads south. Displaying great courage, Harriet Tubman continues to go back and forth from the North to the South and becomes known as the “Moses of her people” with a $40,000 reward posted for her. Harriet successfully rescues her entire family, as well as 300 other slaves, on 17 dangerous missions to the Confederate South. Includes 48-page activity book.