Friends of Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad

This book is about two women that impact the work freeing slaves before and during the U. S. Civil War. They are from two different backgrounds but have the same feeling for injustice. Catharine Coffin is a Quaker raised by parents who harbor escaping slaves in North Carolina. She helps in the beginning of the Underground Railroad. She marries Levi Coffin and for over 30 years shelters and feeds these hungry people at her home in Indiana. She does this with an unfearful trust in God all for the cause of equality in the country. Harriet Tubman, the black woman whose people call her ‘Moses’, was born a slave in the South. She plans and executes her own escape to freedom across the Mason-Dixon Line. She is one of the only slaves to return to the South time and time again to rescue family and friends. This God fearing woman beats all odds for over 12 years never getting caught by way of the Underground Railroad.