Read the excerpts from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground RailroadWhen Harriet heard of the sale of her sisters, she knew that the time had finally come when she must leave the plantation. She was reluctant to attempt the long trip North alone, not because of John Tubman’s threat to betray her, but because she was afraid she might fall asleep somewhere along the way and so would be caught immediately.She persuaded three of her brothers to go with her. Having made certain that John was asleep, she left the cabin quietly, and met her brothers at the edge of the planation. They agreed that she was to lead the way, for she was more familiar with the woods than the others.Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlReader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slaveholders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition.