Railway to Freedom

Oh, hey. Are you tub, mon? I lived in the shadows, out of sight of the light of liberty. And I heard their voices call out to me in the dark. They were the voices of slaves.

They were the voices of my people. When I heard them, the earth moved under me. Rockets burst in my head. They were the voices of God. I was Moses. Go down, moles, and Egypt, like child's day, people go Destination Freedom The Chicago Defender and Station WMAQ bring you Destination Freedom, a special radio series

dramatizing the great democratic traditions of the Negro people, interwoven in the The Pageant of History and a part of America's own destination freedom. Today Destination Freedom dramatizes the story of one of the most remarkable women in world history.

It is the story of Harriet Tubman and American Moses, the liberator of 300 slaves, the fearless pilot of the pre-Civil War Underground Railway. Today we tell of the early life of Harriet Tubman, the chapter entitled, Railway to Freedom.

The voices were still that day on the plantation in Maryland, where I grew wild like a weed, one of eleven children, one of a dozen slaves. The voices were still, I was asleep, but I woke up one day when I heard a slave sing a song, we were hussing corn.

I knew the song but it was something in the way he sang it. I stopped huffing corn and listening. I looked up at him and said, "'Saw?" Huh? What were you singing? Oh, just a little old song.

What does it mean, Zaw? Are you nice, all as I am? You're all enough to know? No, what? To know the ways of the underground railroad area. To know there's a train waiting tonight. And how to tell those who want to come aboard.