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Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero / Kate Clifford Larson.

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  • ISBN: 0345456270
  • ISBN: 9780345456274
  • ISBN: 9780345456281
  • ISBN: 0345456289
  • Physical Description: xxi, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine, [2004]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-388) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Life on the Chesapeake in black and white -- Sweet gum and prickly burrs : the changing world of the Eastern shore -- "Devilish" mistresses and harsh masters : black family life under the lash -- "Shadow of a voice in the talking leaves" : the hidden world of black communication -- "Mean to be free" : the fragile light of liberty -- All for the love of family -- Stampede of slaves -- Moses meets John Brown -- Fractured family -- It was raining blood : Harriet Tubman's Civil War -- A hero is remembered -- Myth and memory -- Mother Tubman, the black Joan of Arc.
Subject: Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African American women > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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