Dramatic full-page paintings illustrate these accounts of the many different forms of resistance to slavery in the USA. The author decodes the subversive message of songs and poems, and retells the stories of famous fighters against slavery, such as Booker T.Washington and Harriet Tubman, lesser known figures such as Suzie King Taylor who used the skills she acquired at a secret school to help others gain their freedom, as well as composites of real people drawn from a variety of narratives.