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Original Title:	Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
ISBN:	0299191206 (ISBN13: 9780299191207)
Edition Language:	English

Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories Hardcover | Pages: 488 pages

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    Harriet Tubman’s name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children’s literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez’s comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life—a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources. This book will become a landmark resource for scholars, historians, and general readers interested in slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and African American women.
    Born in slavery in Maryland in or around 1820, Tubman drew upon deep spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped to the north in 1849. Vowing to liberate her entire family, she made repeated trips south during the 1850s and successfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. During the Civil War she was recruited to act as spy and scout with the Union Army. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she worked to support an extended family and in her later years founded a home for the indigent aged. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a variety of private and public documents from the 1850s through the 1870s, she was rediscovered as a race heroine by woman suffragists and the African American women’s club movement in the early twentieth century. Her story was used as a key symbolic resource in education, institutional fundraising, and debates about the meaning of "race" throughout the twentieth century.
    Humez includes an extended discussion of Tubman’s work as a public performer of her own life history during the nearly sixty years she lived in the north. Drawing upon historiographical and literary discussion of the complex hybrid authorship of slave narrative literature, Humez analyzes the interactive dynamic between Tubman and her interviewers. Humez illustrates how Tubman, though unable to write, made major unrecognized contributions to the shaping of her own heroic myth by early biographers like Sarah Bradford. Selections of key documents illustrate how Tubman appeared to her contemporaries, and a comprehensive list of primary sources represents an important resource for scholars.

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Title	:	Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories
Author	:	Jean M. Humez
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 488 pages
Published	:	November 19th 2003 by University of Wisconsin Press
Categories	:	Biography. History. Biography Memoir

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What a great work! I remember reading about Harriet Tubman in high school before they taught Black History in schools. I did not know there was so much more to this great women. Her time with the Union Army, working with Susan B. Anthony and others for women's suffrage and the tireless efforts made till the end of her life working and serving those in need. Ms. Humez has successfully produced a detailed comprehensive work of life of Moses. While reading I often found myself shaking my head in



Amazing and thoughtful inquiry into the source of Tubman's courage and power, emphasizing the role of spirituality. Excellent research and exceptionally well-grounded interpretations of a much-mythologized person.

I want to read more about Harriet Tubman. In school you are only taught so much.

I got a good amount of info from this book and was glad I read it, but the setup is a little weird. Some stories are repeated a lot and stories from the time Harriet was a slave are kind of pushed towards the back and glossed over. So, this is mostly from her time of escape, the Underground Railroad and later life. Not that this isn't plenty of material. I guess there is only a certain amount of info out there and that is what the author had to work with. I just didn't understand the

What a great work! I remember reading about Harriet Tubman in high school before they taught Black History in schools. I did not know there was so much more to this great women. Her time with the Union Army, working with Susan B. Anthony and others for women's suffrage and the tireless efforts made till the end of her life working and serving those in need. Ms. Humez has successfully produced a detailed comprehensive work of life of Moses. While reading I often found myself shaking my head in