When Eliza discovers that Mr. Haley is going to sell little Harry, she decide to pack the few things she can take and run away. She decides one late night to go and head to the Ohio River, hoping for her freedom. Eliza runs through many obstacles while running away, she barely makes it across the river with her son, while they were trying to recapture her. Because of the winter season there is no ferries, so she decides to leap and run across a life threatening ice floe where she cuts her feet in order to escape. The Fugitive Slave Act makes it dangerous for Eliza to gain her freedom, any citizen who finds her can legally return her to her master. Luckily, she finds people who are willing to break civil disobedience known as the Quakers. She
