McGraw©Hill/Focus/A Wagon Load of Bricks p. 150////R7N9/ ***** From 1851 to 1857, the country moved closer to civil war.

During these years Harriet Tubman made eleven trips into Maryland

to bring out slaves. In November, 1856, she rescued Joe Bailey. The trip started

off inauspiciously. There were three men in the group: Joe

Bailey and his brother William, and a man named Peter Pennington.

There was one woman, Eliza Nokey. After Harriet heard Joe's story, she had fear of immediate

pursuit. Joe was a tall, dark man, muscular and handsome. His

master had hired him out to another planter, William R. Hughlett,

for six years. Finally, Hughlett decided to buy him, for Joe

supervised the running of the plantation so well that Hughlett

didn't have to pay an overseer. He paid two thousand dollars for

Joe. Joe said the day Hughlett bought him, he beat him with a

rawhide, to make certain Joe knew who was the master. Joe told

them that he had said to himself, "This is the first and the last

time." That night he took a boat and rowed down the river to the

plantation where Old Ben lived. He told Ben, "The next time

Moses comes, let me know." The scars on Joe's back weren't healed yet. Harriet worried

about that. His height, the bloody stripes on his back, would

make it easy to identify him. Perhaps it was the worry, the

haste with which they had to move to get away, the fact she felt

impelled to move them faster and faster;