Taken from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left
is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the
trader's cart traveling south, or working on the brutal new
plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free,
a land she and her friend Liza may reach some day. So when workers
from the "underground railway" offer to help the two girls, they are
ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them.
