Like all biographers of slaves, Clinton could consult only a slim file on her subject’s early years documentation is particularly scant in Tubman’s case because a courthouse fire in the 1850s destroyed important papers. (She died five years later-the year Rosa Parks was born.) The author then takes us back to the Eastern Shore of antebellum Maryland, where Araminta Ross, as Tubman was then called, was born sometime between 18. Clinton ( Civil War Stories, 1998, etc.) begins in 1908, when the elderly Tubman appears at the opening in Auburn, New York, of the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged and Indigent, her last great public endeavor. 1262), this new account of “the Black Moses” trots along at a brisk pace. Less hobbled by academic conventions than Kate Clifford Larson’s recent Bound for the Promised Land (p. Well-written bio of the former slave who became an engineer on the Underground Railroad, a loyal supporter of John Brown, a Civil War nurse and spy, and a fiery advocate for women’s suffrage.
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