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Who Was Harriet Tubman?
Yona Zeldis McDonough

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Penguin Workshop (Dec 30, 2002)
9780448428895
| Paperback
112 pages | 133 x 191 mm | English
Dewey 973.7115
LC Classification E444.T82 .M375 2002
LC Control No. 2002004663

Subject

  • African American Women
  • African American Women/ Biography/ Juvenile Literature
  • Slaves
  • Slaves/ United States/ Biography/ Juvenile Literature
  • Underground Railroad/ Juvenile Literature

Plot

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad which she travelled by herself north to Philadelphia. Throughout her long life (she died at the age of ninety-two) and long after the Civil War brought an end to slavery, this amazing woman was proof of what just one person can do.