The book attempts to narrate the story of a slave mother who escaped with her baby across a partially frozen river. The genesis of the story was an account in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her account was a composite of a few different slave escape stories. Some of the events were fairly well established, while others are more guesswork. While it may be impossible to tease out the 100% accurate account, it does provide good insight into the plights of slaves and the Underground Railroad.
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