Honors & Awards: Emmy Nomination
Gold Apple - Top National Honor Education Media Network
Booklist - Youth Video of the Year & Starred Review
Silver Screen - US International Film Festival
Telly Awards - Silver - Top Honor
Finalist in the USA Film Festival Running Time: 34 minutes copyright © 1992
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She was 29 years old, and a slave. She'd never been to school. Couldn't read
or write. She had been beaten, abused, and humiliated.
Except for the few square miles around her home,
she knew nothing of the outside
world. And yet, one Spring evening in the year 1849, she boldly charged into a
world she had never seen
Her name was Harriet Tubman
In The Quest for Freedom, we meet Harriet through the eyes of a young man
from our own times--a young man who has lost the courage to dream. One day he
enters a mysterious library. Suddenly he's trapped in the past--a slave on a
plantation with Harriet. And he discovers that without courage, there are no
dreams
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