Samantha: the Life of a Slave Girl Is Child Slave’s Story
Samantha: the Life of a Slave Girl By Georgia Humphries Seaburn
Publishing Group 52 pp.; illustrations by the author For an
11-year-old just starting middle school, Georgia Humphries
displays a remarkable amount of talent and potential. Her first
published work, Samantha: the Life of a Slave Girl, introduces
that talent to the world. Samantha, the child of a slave woman
and her white master, leads a secret existence until someone
betrays her and she is sold away from her mother and the
plantation that has always been her home. She is stolen from her
brutal new master by the legendary Harriet Tubman and begins the
long journey to freedom in the North by way of the Underground
Railroad. Along the way she is reunited with her mother and
discovers a sister hitherto unknown to her. She also learns who
betrayed and sold her and finds another new addition to her
family. The bare outline of Samantha: the Life of a Slave Girl
does not do justice to the descript