The Midnight Train to Freedom

In 1850, a young enslaved mother named Harriet Tubman made a desperate choice. Word had reached her that she was about to be sold further south, separated forever from everything she knew. Under cover of darkness, with nothing but the North Star to guide her, she fled through swamps and forests toward the free state of Pennsylvania. Like Joseph, who woke Mary in the dead of night and fled with the infant Jesus toward Egypt, Tubman understood that survival sometimes means abandoning everything familiar.…