Harriet Tubman - A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

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.

List of contents

Preface
Maps of Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad Routes
Genealogy of the Ross Family
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Kate Clifford Larson

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Clifford Larson, Larson Kate Clifford
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9781538197622
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9762-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Significant Figures in World History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, REFERENCE / Encyclopedias, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, General encyclopaedias