Recreates the life of escaped slave Harriet Tubman, portraying her life as a slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist.

Araminta -- Owasco Lake -- Dorchester : birth -- Childhood -- At Polish Mills : a shower of fire -- The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads -- Sold and carried away : the slave-holder's choice -- Harriet -- Marriage -- Over the line -- Family -- Rescues, promises -- Moses -- Becoming Moses --Escapes, rescues : the stampede -- With John Brown : dreams, metaphor -- Last rescue -- The General -- Beaufort, South Carolina -- The proclamation, the raid -- Raining blood -- Auburn, last days -- March 13, 1913.