Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

The essential,Â â€œrichly researchedâ€* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman whoÂ â€œled a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinaryâ€ (*The New York Times Book Review).
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Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American historyâ€”a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human beingâ€”brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed.
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Praise for Bound for the Promised Land
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â€œ[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubmanâ€™s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubmanâ€™s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.â€â€”The Seattle Times
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â€œEssential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.â€â€”The Plain Dealer
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â€œLarson has captured Harriet Tubmanâ€™s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.â€â€”The New York Sun
Country USA
Brand One World
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
Color White
ReleaseDate 2004-12-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345456281

Country	USA
Brand	One World
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2004-12-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345456281

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero

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