Harriet Tubman The Road to Freedom

by Clinton, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780316155946
• ISBN10: 0316155942
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-05
• Publisher: Back Bay Books

Summary

Every schoolchild knows of Harriet Tubman's heroic escape and resistance to slavery.But few readers are aware that Tubman went on to be a scout, a spy, and a nurse for the Union Army, because there has never before been a serious biography for an adult audience of this important woman.This is that long overdue historical work, written by an acclaimed historian of the antebellum era and the Civil War. Illiterate but deeply religious, Tubman left her family in her early 20s to escape to Philadelphia, then a hotbed of abolitionism.There she became the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. So successful was she in spiriting away slaves that the state of Maryland put a $40,000 bounty on her head.Within a year of starting her work, fellow slaves and Northerners began referring to Tubman as 'Moses' because of how many people she had freed. With impeccable scholarship that draws on newly available sources and research into the daily lives of slaves, HARRIET TUBMAN is an enduring work on one of the most important figures in American history.

Author Biography

Catherine Clinton With over fifteen books currently in print, she has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Brown, and Wesleyan. Clinton has held visiting chairs at the University of Richmond, Wofford College, City University of New York, and the Citadel

Table of Contents

Preface: Remembering Harriet Tubman	p. ix
Born into Bondage	p. 3
Coming of Age in the Land of Egypt	p. 15
Crossing Over to Freedom	p. 33
In a Free State	p. 46
The Liberty Lines	p. 61
The Moses of Her People	p. 79
Canadian Exile	p. 98
Trouble in Canaan	p. 109
Crossroads at Harpers Ferry	p. 124
Arise, Brethren	p. 140
Bittersweet Victories	p. 162
Final Battles	p. 191
Epilogue: Harriet Tubman's Legacy	p. 215
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 259
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