They thought the Underground Railroad was their passage to a new life. They thought it was an opportunity to live as free men and women. They were wrong. The woods they traveled through held a different fate for them, one they never would have imagined or wanted. Something howled around them as they made their way through. If they survived, they might be free, but they would never be women or men again.
Slaves trying to find their way to freedom find something else waiting for them in the woods. Not bad for a short story, but it didn't offer anything new at all. Unfortunately the writing felt very amateur, rushed, without a definite sense of purpose or place. (A group of poor, frightened, uneducated slaves running for their freedom and their lives, yet they speak perfect unbroken English?)