Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the
journeys of the brave men and women who made their way to freedom on the
Underground Railroad.
Fleeing on the Underground Railroad meant walking long distances;
swimming across streams; hiding in abandoned shanties, swamps, and
ditches, always on the run from slave trackers and their dogs.
ah might get hungry
ah may get tired
good Lawd /
ah may be free
The Underground Railroad operated on secrecy and trust. But who could be
trusted?
There were free black and white men and women helping, risking their
lives, too. Because freedom was worth any risk. Celebrated collaborators
Ntozake Shange and Rod Brown pay tribute to the Underground Railroad, a
universal story about the human need to be free.
ah am a livin bein' & ah got to be free