Contains an account of the life of Harriet Tubman, a freed slave, who helped lead slaves to freedom, transporting them from the South to the North by using the Underground Railroad.

A biography of Harriet Tubman written in verse, in which poem and watercolor come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.

A picture book biography of "Frederick Douglass, ... a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, 'Once you learn to read, you will be forever free'"--Amazon.com.

"An acclaimed historian's definitive biography of the most important African-American figure of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass, who was to his century what Martin Luther King, Jr. was to the 20th century"--