Reverend John Rankin is credited with providing safety through the
Underground Railroad to more than 2,000 people as they tried to escape
slavery. Not as well-known as Harriet Tubman's story to most readers,
Beacon to Freedom recounts in an illlustrated, nonfiction narrative how
Rankin guided runaways across the wide Ohio River with a light in his
window, giving them hope in a time of great fear and danger.