Eliza’s story Once upon a time there lived a woman called Eliza. Eliza was a slave and worked on a cotton-plantation. One day Eliza decided to run away and be free. She set off and ran as fast as she could, the slave-hunters saw that she ran away and they followed her. She came to a lake with ice floes in it. Then she managed to leap from one ice floe to another and …showed first 75 words of 256 total…

…showed last 75 words of 256 total…hunters came, the son of the man who helped Eliza had disguised himself as a slave woman. He set off and he got the hunters to follow him instead. Eliza and her kids ran back to the man. The son of the man ran around for hours before the hunters lost him. Eliza said that she was very glad for her help and thanked. Then Eliza and her children walked home to their real home.