
In the story of Almost to Freedom I learned that Ms.Rachel and her daughter Linda are trying to get to her dad and when they get to her dad they travel in a boat and they reach a little town and go to a store nearby. Soon the owner from the store gives them a secret room to stay in while they go to an other freedom part. After some days Mr. Henry and Ms.Rachel with there daughter Linda were in there basement and suddenly two men came down the stairs and tells them that if they wanted to go to North freedom with them and they all answered of course YES. The author had the ideas to write this book because he had gone to a Museum of International folk Art in New Mexico; SantaFe.In 1800s through 1900s there was a display of black rang dolls. Also the author wrote about many people that went to freedom and never came back to see there family. No person knew about the entire system of escaping the way Ms.Rachel and Mr. Henry with there daughter escaped. People that were caught going to freedom were returned to there master and were punished severely. Some slaves that worked for the master had reached to freedom