Possessing Harriet

In 1839, in Peterboro, NY, Thomas Leonard, a freed slave, helps Harriet Powell escape from her Southern owner who is visiting the area. While hiding in an attic, a price on her head, waiting to be taken to Canada in the dead of night, Harriet is with abolitionist Gerrit Smith & suffragette Elizabeth Cady (before she married Stanton). Confronted with new & difficult ideas about race & identity, Harriet faces the costs & benefits of freedom. Can Leonard, Smith & Cady convince her to go to Canada – and freedom?