Harriet Tubman aka “Moses”: Wanted: Stealing Slaves

Just who is Harriett Tubman? Sambo had often wondered the same thing. He had heard of the Harriet Tubman "Road to Freedom," but what he was about to encounter was a journey he could have never imagined.

Samuel Walter Jenks (Sambo) knew the meaning of a hard day’s work. He was all too familiar with a good lickin.’ Being a young slave on a tobacco plantation he knew many things a boy his age should never know.

Under the hands of his master, Mr. Capps, Sambo suffered. But it was when his father (Big Sam) was sold off to another farm, for defending him, that inflicted the worst pain of all.

Amidst the despair, Sambo and the rest of the slaves held to a glimmer of hope. It was farfetched…but it was something that got them through the long days and nights. It was the hope of Moses.

One day it happened. Moses arrived. Moses was nothing like Sambo expected. He was a she. Small in stature and very daring, the woman wasted no time in placing her demands. It was all or nothing. The "Harriett Tubman Freedom Train" was leaving. But would Sambo make it down the track to freedom? An unlikely encounter left him to make a decision no young boy should ever have to make.

Read on to find out how this Harriet Tubman story unfolds, but be forewarned…the twists and turns will leave you on the edge of your seat.

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