Winter 1838: Kentucky. Determined to save her toddler son from being sold as a slave, Eliza Harris began a long journey to freedom. Her goal: to escape across the frozen Ohio River, the boundary between the North and the South, between slavery and freedom in America. And she was not going to let fear stop her, especially when a new, free life awaited her on the other side.
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