Bound For The Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

Name: Bound For The Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Price: 15.97 USD
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Author: Kate Clifford Larson
ISBN: 9780345456281

Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history — a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes. Now at last, in this long-overdue biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives Harriet Tubman the powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed life she deserves.

Stripping away myths and misconceptions, Larson presents stunning new details about Tubman's accomplishments, personal life, and influence, including her relationship with Frederick Douglass, her involvement with John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and revelations about a young woman who may have been Tubman's daughter. Here too are Tubman's twilight years after the war, when she worked for women's rights and in support of her fellow blacks, and when racist politicians and suffragists marginalized her contribution. Bound for the Promised Land is a magnificent work of biography, history, and truth telling.