This is about Harriet Tubman’s journey out of slavery. It starts with her as a young child working on a plantation in the South. One of her jobs as a young girl is to pick apples from the orchard but is forbidden to eat one. Just as she thinks she is alone to take a delicious bite, she is seen and whipped without mercy. She vows that she will be free one day and eat as many apples as she wants. She soon grows up and escapes to the North. Harriet Tubman was a very brave woman that helped thousands of Africans escape from slavery during her lifetime.
I enjoyed reading this book because it tells a story that doesn't have much recognition. I did not know the apple story with Harriet Tubman. In an authors note in the back of the book it states that the author heard this story from Alice Brickler who was Harriet's great-niece. Alice had been told this story from Harriet herself. I also did not know that Harriet's original name was Araminta "Minty" and she changed it.
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