ABSTRACT
Moses: When Harriet Led Her People to Freedom, which was written by African American writer and Fayetteville State university professor Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by the renowned African American artist Kadir Nelson, is another representation of slavery through biography. It is a fictionalized account of Harriet Tubman's physical and spiritual escape from slavery to freedom. The narrative is represented as a poetic conversation between Harriet Tubman and God. The majority of the text centers on Harriet's perilous journey toward freedom and concludes as she returns to the South to rescue members of her family and other slaves, buoyed by her strong faith in God. Throughout the book, the narrator reveals what the characters—Harriet Tubman, the woman in the wagon, the farmer and his wife, patrollers, and other slaves seeking freedom—think, feel, do, observe, and say. However, unlike the Pinkney's Sojourner, Weatherford is primarily concerned with overcoming and fighting racial oppression rather than gender oppression.
