She forces her way past him with furious determination, grabbing a kitchen knife in a last ditch bid for freedom. (lwlies.com)
From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. (bookbrowse.com)
Land or sea: They try to make it through the thick of the jungle and across the desolate ocean, to no avail, receiving harsh punishment for the failed bids for freedom (dailymail.co.uk)