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Moses:
When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom "Every great dream begins with a
dreamer. Reach for the stars to change the world." Harriet Tubman is born into slavery. She spends all of her life doing the master's bidding. She is about to be sold south, in chains, to work the crops. She will never see her family again. That night, Harriet Tubman turns her eyes toward the skies to talk to God. Harriet asks for His help. He answers her in a whippoorwill's song. "I set the North Star in the heavens and I mean for you to be free." He wraps her in the blanket of night. The next day, she speaks to him while chopping wood, promising Him that she will hold steady to Him. She hears Him whisper in the breeze. "I'm going to see you through, Child." As she begins her journey, she continues to pray. God continues to answer...in the moon's reflection on the creek...cradled in underbrush...in the faces of kind people...in churches along the Underground Railroad. Her journey does not end with her own freedom. God leads her back to show her people the way, like Moses in the Bible, the one chosen by God to free His people in Egypt so many years before. "The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witness of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism." Frederick Douglass Research Links for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Author
Carol Boston Weatherford "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." Marian Anderson Related Literature Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson with Kids' Wings Unit in Bluebonnet Celebrations and Transformers Gabriel's Horses by Allison Hart with Kids' Wings Unit in Transformers Crossing Bok Chittoby Tim Tingle with Kids' Wings Unit in Transformers Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis with Kids' Wings Unit in Transformers Bigger by Patricia Calvert with Kids' Wing Unit in Bluebonnet Celebrations Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis with Kids' Wing Unit in Roots and Wings
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