Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538113561)

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.

Author: Kate Clifford Larson
ISBN-10: 1538113562
ISBN-13: 9781538113561
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2022
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2023 pg. 102