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Format:
Book
Title:
Harriet Tubman : imagining a life
ISBN:
9780385502917
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, ©2007.
Physical Description:
x, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Araminta -- Dorchester : birth -- Childhood -- At Polish Mills : a shower of fire -- The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads -- Sold and carried away : the slave-holder's choice -- Marriage -- Over the line -- Family -- Rescues, promises -- Becoming Moses -- With John Brown : dreams, metaphor -- Last rescue -- The General -- Beaufort, South Carolina -- The proclamation, the raid -- Raining blood -- Auburn, last days -- March 13, 1913.
Summary:
Recreates the life of escaped slave Harriet Tubman, portraying her life as a slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist.
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