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When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Jump At the Sun
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
44 pages
ISBN: 0786851759
EAN: 9780786851751
Hardcover
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I set the North Star in the heavens
and I mean for you to be free... We know Harriet Tubman as the Moses of her people. The
quintessential American hero, Tubman guided enslaved
Africans along the Underground Railroad -- a loose network
of racially diverse helpers and top secret hideouts -- from
bondage of the South to freedom in North. Yet little is known about Harriet’s first trip. Born into
slavery, how did she become free? What was her first trip
North like? And what inspired her to make nineteen more
trips escorting hundreds of slaves, including her own
parents, to freedom? Never once getting caught. Never once
losing a passenger. In this elegy to Tubman, award-winning author Carole
Boston Weatherford and star illustrator Kadir Nelson
imagine all of this and more. Weatherford’s poetic narrative and Kadir Nelson’s
magnificent paintings bear witness to an ecstatic event --
the Spirit of God communing with the flesh-and-blood of
true humanity. It is one of the most emotional, inspiring
reading experiences ever.
Awards Caldecott, , January 2007
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