Volume 51, Number 4 · March 11, 2004
The Moses of Her People
By James M. McPherson
Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories
by Jean M. Humez
University of Wisconsin Press, 971 pp., $45.00
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
by Kate Clifford Larson
Ballantine, 402 pp., $26.95
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by Catherine Clinton
Little, Brown, 272 pp., $25.95
Harriet Jacobs: A Life
by Jean Fagan Yellin
Basic Civitas, 394 pp., $27.50
Surveys of freshmen at the State University of New York at Buffalo who registered for the introductory US history course in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that more of them knew of Harriet Tubman than any other woman who lived before 1900 except Betsy Ross. Tubman also ranked higher on this recognition scale than Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Pocahontas, Patrick Henry, and a host of other prominent figures.[1]
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