Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Jean Marie Wiesen, "Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore"
English | ISBN: 1639368132 | 2025 | 224 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
English | ISBN: 1639368132 | 2025 | 224 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
A fresh portrait of this iconic American—and the first to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.
For all Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and the myriad books written about her, many gaps, errors, and misconceptions of her legendary life persist. One such fallacy is that Sarah H. (Hopkins) Bradford is to blame for omitted information in Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People and that she ended her second book too soon. But according to the Tubman family, it was Harriet’s physical disability, the result of a head injury she incurred as a child, that left her unable to complete the necessary lengthy interview process with Sarah and properly flesh out the work.
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