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Harriet Tubman : the life and the life stories / Jean M. Humez.

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Harriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez's comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2003.
Series:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Subjects:
Tubman, Harriet, > 1822-1913.
African American women > Biography > History and criticism.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Underground Railroad.
Women and literature > United States.
Tubman, Harriet, > 1820?-1913.
African American women > Biography
African American women.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons > Biography.
Women and literature.
United States.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The Life
  • The Slavery Years
  • Underground Railroad Years
  • The War Years
  • Postwar Years In Auburn
  • The Later Years
  • Coping With Poverty
  • The Life Stories
  • Harriet Tubman's Practices as a Life-Storyteller
  • Reading the Core Stories for Harriet Tubman's Own Perspective
  • Stories and Sayings
  • Documents
  • A Note on Harriet Tubman's Kin
  • A Note on the Numbers.

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