Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Maps of Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad routes -- Genealogy of the Ross family -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendixes. Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad rescue missions -- Anthony Thompson's inventory of slaves, recorded by Dr. Anthony C. Thompson, January 1839 -- Famous Harriet Tubman quotes and speech fragments -- Earliest published interviews and biographical essays about Harriet Tubman -- Underground Railroad myths -- Myths about Harriet Tubman.
Summary:
"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 includes entries on people, places, and events related to her. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works about her life"-- Provided by publisher. "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." -- Description from publisher's website. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538113561/Harriet-Tubman-A-Reference-Guide-to-Her-Life-and-Works
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