Harriet Tubman
A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
Zusammenfassung
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.
Schlagworte
Slavery Civil War civil rights African American History Network to Freedom Woman suffrage Underground Railroad Araminta Minty Ross Dorchester County Maryland Eastern Shore Maryland Auburn New York Freedom Fighter Freedom Seeker Abolitionist Harriet Tubman- i–xxviii Preface i–xxviii
- 1–160 The Dictionary 1–160
- 161–162 Appendix A 161–162
- 163–164 Appendix B 163–164
- 165–168 Appendix C 165–168
- 169–184 Appendix D 169–184
- 185–188 Appendix E 185–188
- 189–190 Appendix F 189–190
- 191–208 Bibliography 191–208
- 209–224 Index 209–224
- 225–226 About the Author 225–226