Listen FOR THE WHIPPOORWILL Introducing Harriet Tubman Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember.
Will rosebud be able to keep up? Does Harriet Tubman know the way?.
Harriet Tubman, known as Moses, was also an escaped slave and became famous for leading bands of runaways on their dangerous passage to Canada.
On the darkest of nights, Rosebud will meet the mysterious person the slaves called Moses, who will lead her and other slaves on a harrowing journey toward the North on the Underground Railroad.
When the harvest season is over, this sound will be her signal to follow in a desperate attempt to escape her cruel slavery.
Her only hope is that the words of her father will come true: Just Listen for the whippoorwill.
But when a series of tragedies strikes, Rosebud is left alone and very afraid.
Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stable boy.
Rosebud\'s world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake.
Listen FOR THE WHIPPOORWILL Introducing Harriet Tubman Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember
