Harriet Tubman

Zusammenfassung

A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022

Harriet Ross Tubman, born enslaved in Maryland emerged from the most oppressive of conditions to lead others to freedom along the Underground Railroad and then continue her fight against slavery on the battlefields of the Civil War. During the last fifty years of her life in New York she campaigned for voting and civil rights, became an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, community organizer and leader.

Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures her life, her works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, places, and events central to Tubman’s life as an enslaved person, liberator, abolitionist, soldier, spy, wife, mother, and public figure, and includes the most recent research findings and the latest efforts to memorialize her.

Schlagworte

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr

2022

ISBN-Print

978-1-5381-1356-1

ISBN-Online

978-1-5381-1357-8

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

226

Produkttyp

Monographie