Harriet works with the Union army as a spy and scout. In South Carolina she leads troops on a raid that frees 800 slaves in a single night. As the war nears its ends she returns to her home in Auburn, New York, where she spends the rest of her days in peace.; Using the Underground Railroad, and contacts developed during her time of freedom, Harriet makes two journeys into slave country, bringing out six friends and family members.; Harriet helps her 11 escapers start a new life in Canada, then returns to take six more friends and family to freedom. She communicates with her father, but keeps both her presence and the escape a secret from her mother.; Helped along by a network of sympathizers, Araminta makes her way to freedom in Pennsylvania. There she takes the new name of Harriet Tubman.; Finding that her husband has remarried, Harriet leads a group of nine to freedom. Concluding that Philadelphia is no longer safe enough, she clandestinely leads a large group to Rochester, New York, and the home of Frederick Douglass.; Harriett tries to rescue her sister Rachel, who refuses to go unless she can find her children first. Despite illness and pain, Harriett leads four men to the north instead.; Despite repeated bouts of narcolepsy through each day (presumably a result of her brain injury), Araminta works with her father on a lumber gang. She also sees visions, and hears rumors of the Underground Railroad.; Hoping to earn money to buy her freedom, Araminta works herself into a breakdown. Hearing that Brodess plans to sell her she prays for his death, which quickly follows. Araminta is appalled at her own behavior, but with Brodess's estate deeply in debt, the family will now be sold off to pay his bills.; Araminta leads two of her brothers on a runaway to freedom, but when she falls into a nacroleptic fit they take her home. Araminta has visions that she is flying all the way to freedom.; Harriet and Jon Brown find themselves to be kindred spirits. She agrees to join his raid on Harpers Ferry, but for some reason fails to do so, and it ends in defeat. She later leads a mob in freeing a captured fugitive slave by force.; Six year-old Aramainta proves hopeless at the tasks she's been rented out for. Maltreated and neglected, she becomes sick enough that she's sent home.; Several members of Araminta's family are sold away. The slaves draw understanding from the Bible's story of how God used Moses to free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.; Driven by visions, Nat Turner raises a bloody slave revolt, which is put down with equal bloodiness.; Araminta is brain damaged when her skull is broken open with a lead weight thrown by a white man. Even so, she is quickly driven into the field to continue working.; Araminta marries John Tubman and works incessantly, trying to get money to buy her freedom. Consulting a lawyer she discovers that her mother is legally free, but is being kept in bondage anyway.; Rachel still has not been reunited with her children, so Harriet takes another group north, including a slave who is both injured and high in monetary value. Searching is intense, and she threatens to kill one of the men who wants to turn back. Eventually she gets her group through to Canada.; An escaping group operating on its own implicates Harriet's father, Ben Ross. With no preparation she rushes south and takes her elderly parents north, hiding in the open, while mother complains all the way.; Araminta is rented out to a woman who is always furious, and who beats and whips Araminta repeatedly.; When Edward Brodess proposes to sell Araminta's brother Moses, their mother Rittia hides the child and even threatens Brodess with a hatchet. Araminta meets John Tubman, a free man.; Debt collectors seize and sell one of Araminta's sisters. Araminta prays for the death of Edward Brodess.; Harriet works hard, and loves living in freedom, but longs for her family. When she hears about the cruel Fugitive Slave Law, she resolves to free her family.; Learning from an African American barge captain that family members are being sold, Harriet determines to free them. A white shop owner refuses to sell her a gun, but she buys one from a clandestine dealer.; Even as a young child slave Frederick Douglass finds illegal opportunities to learn to read. Put out to slave-breaker, Douglass fist fights him until the breaker never tries to whip Douglass again. Escaping to the free states, Douglass marries, writes books, gives lectures, and serves on the Underground Railroad.; Harriett gets another large group through to Canada. She works hard and earns money to finance yet another expedition.; The provost and the hangman agree to stay Nathan Hale's execution so that he may tell another story, but they insist that it be a story about bad things that America has done. Nathan Hale agrees to tell a tale about slavery.; Harriet returns to the south only to find that her sister Rachel has died. She never succeeds in locating Rachel's children, but leads another small group to freedom.; Despite a long stay in hiding with her sister, no opportunity arises to escape with the children. Harriet advises other escaping slaves, and has a vision of a great war coming.