Alexanders is a play that views moments in history that resemble current events in 2019. In the play, there is a bar where different people come in and out and tell their stories.  There is a group of people that are somehow related to the event and they all share their stories at the bar.

This monologue is about Harriet Tuban freeing slaves through the underground railroad, written from her brother Ben Ross Jr. 's perspective. The scene captures Ben Ross Jr. describing the process of escaping from slavery.

I was sitting on my bed getting ready to go to sleep when my sister touched me and my brother and said we're going to go today. Next thing I remember was going out the door of the house and sprinting towards the tree line, in the distance I heard dogs barking and someone yelling the slaves are running so we quickly got to the river where we jumped in so we could lose the scent and the dogs wouldn't be able to chase us we swim through the water and got out I was not sure how far we went but it felt like years that we were walking and running but soon right next to the river we got to a house it was almost morning. My sister ran up to the door and knocked, on the other side someone said whos there and my sister replied “a friend with friends” the door opened and we entered.

We went down into the basement there had been prepared place for us to sleep and food to eat. Soon later the next night our sister ran off again she said I will be back and seem like days and days she had not come back but very soon she appeared again she came back with more people, we were amazed then she got even more people and kept going back and forth until there were multiple houses with freed slaves I remember feeling fear of the police coming or slave owners coming and finding us in the basement I always thought of myself as brave man, but in this moment I felt the most fear I have ever felt the fear of being killed in the fear that if we run we may never find another place to stay. Soon later sister took us again and this time she brought the others with us currently we were  in Pennsylvania but we went to British North America where there was little to no slavery we got there and we found freedom, home and jobs.

My name is Ben Ross.jr Harriet Tubman's brother.

I am. Free African American man.