I recently watched the movie Harriet about the black Moses, one of the most courageous women in American history. The movie is powerful, and I recommend it. It showed the desperate dependence of plantation owners on the institution of slavery for their economic survival and societal status. It portrayed the extraordinary cohesiveness of slave families. It touched on the ability of slaves to wear one mask for the masters and one for trusted family and friends. It showed that some slaves, like Harriet Tubman, risked everything for liberty. Those who struck out for freedom faced beatings, torture, mutilation, or being “sold down the river” to a worse situation. When Harriet made her first return trip south to free her family, her husband, believing she was dead, had married another woman. He said to her, “You left me. You went alone and left me.” There it is. In the end, the will to be free is a personal choice. Harriet’s answer came later in the...(Read Full Article)