Over eight years, author David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles, following routes of the Underground Railroad. He followed the path of Harriet Tubman all the way up to her family sanctuary in Ontario, Canada. He rode to New Orleans, where people were bought and sold, and to Oberlin, Ohio, whose residents were active in defending freedom-seekers. Goodrich winds in the stories of desperate people who were attempting to reclaim their freedom and sheds a new, deeply personal, light on the Underground Railroad.