This impressive picture book tells how Harriet Tubman earned the description the 'Moses of her people' because of her single-minded mission to lead fellow slaves to freedom. Her perilous journeys are presented in counterpoint with the spiritual itinerary of her ongoing dialogues with God, and by the intense paintings that dramatise her heroism with brilliant interplay of darkness and light. A foreward explains the impact of slavery, and the book concludes with a brief biography of its subject.