Edda Fields-Black

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the child is eating in flight.

It's a wonderful image.

And Tubman runs through some of these like thorn bushes near the edge of the rice field and she tears her skirt.

And so she laments the fact that she nearly tore her skirt off and writes a letter or has someone write a letter for her to the women of Boston, asking them to send her a pair of bloomers and telling them that she'll probably need them for another expedition.

Yeah.

Exactly.

She needs pants, yes, yes.

The overseer was able to get some of the Confederate soldiers to follow him back to the plantation, and they positioned themselves between the freedom seekers and the boat, which stopped many people from actually getting to freedom.

And one enslaved girl ran for it, and she was shot and killed in cold blood.

There were descriptions of them holding on to the sides of the rowboats and trying to stop the rowboats from leaving without them.

And at one point, Colonel Montgomery tells Harriet Tubman to sing to your people.

Hmm.

Right.

To calm them, sing to them.

And she does.

And they become calm and kind of let go of the sides of the rowboat and the boat takes off without them.

So we can only imagine what happened to those people, that they were tortured.

Some of them may have been killed for trying to escape.