This remarkable 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 a spiritual narrative of her ongoing dialogues with God, and by the intense paintings with their brilliant interplay of darkness and light that dramatise her heroism. A foreword explains the impact of slavery, and the book concludes with a brief biography of its subject.