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Title: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton ISBN: 0-316-14492-4 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful historical portrait!
Comment: Catherine Clinton's biography of Harriet Tubman is a major addition to the American historical corpus. She has fully and magnificently brought to life for adults a woman who before now generally resided in children's books and half-remembered stories from elementary school. Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman and a pivotal figure in antebellum American history; Clinton has produced a biography worthy of its subject. It is eminently readable, well-researched, and deserves to stand alongside her other books, including her fascinating works on Fanny Kemble.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just The Facts Ma'am!
Comment: Catherine Clinton has done justice to a treasured historical figure whose life has often been confused with legend. Great writing and thoroughly researched. Accompanied by fine photos.
Rating: 4
Summary: Highly readable
Comment: This book is highly readable, and Clinton navigates smoothly through what is at times complex material. But I'm giving it 4 rather than 5 stars because it does not take advantage of the most current research in the field and at times, recycles myths which have been debunked...for example, the myth that there was a $40,000 bounty on Tubman's head.
Still, it does update much of what we learned about Tubman in our children's books, so I can recommend it to general readers. But I feel academics will be better served by Kate Clifford Larson's HARRIET TUBMAN - BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND.
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Title: Bound for the Promised Land : Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson ISBN: 0345456270 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin ISBN: 0465092888 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by Jean McMahon Humez, William L. Andrews ISBN: 0299191206 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Slave by Mende Nazer, Damien Lewis ISBN: 1586482122 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick, Levi Coffin ISBN: 1566635462 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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