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Few historical figures can be more admired than Harriet Tubman. She is mythologised, idolised and made superhuman, and whilst the temptation is clear, she was really a human being, reflected in these pages. A slave, a woman, a runaway, black and poor, she fought all the odds to become a shining point in the history of emancipation. Not only was Harriet Tubman an abolitionist but she was active as an advocate for the deprived and spoke out in favour of women's suffrage. After a childhood full of violence and fear at the hands of her masters, the woman born as Araminta Ross escaped slavery. She had feared her brothers and sisters being sold away, never to be seen again, she had feared her children becoming slaves and she hoped for better. In the climate of the Southern states, decades before emancipation came for the slaves, Harriet Tubman showed unprecedented courage by not only remaining in the United States, against her best interest, but by journeying again and again into the slave states to rescue friends, family and even slaves on plantations who she had no relationship to at all. She worked as a cook, a nurse, a scout and a spy. She was even described as a general by her contemporaries in the Union army. Tubman was the very first woman to lead an armed military expedition but astounding as that is, her fight was always bigger than the war. She fought to make lives better for the downtrodden. Sarah Bradford, our author, hoped by the publication of Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman to give Harriet Tubman a modicum of comfort in her old age. Whilst Harriet is long gone, her memory is palpable in Bradford's account and is only made more so when turning the pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The haste that she wrote the book in is obvious. Bradford also had trouble understanding Tubman’s stories. The book opens with a description of Tubman working as a nurse during the Civil War and tells of slap-ping away swarms of flies and needing to melt ice to wash the wounded. Tubman likely had to do both, but never at the same time. I was surprised that anyone in 1869 would think that swarms of flies could exist in freezing weather, something that even a simple farm boy like me knows is impossible.
Tubman managed to keep her home so in that sense the book is a success. I also feel it is valuable historically. Bradford included three versions of the same story of rescuing a “self-emancipated” man from slave catchers. In each version Tubman’s involvement varies, illustrating how her legend grew post war. Bradford also included transcripts of numerous letters of recommendation Tubman received during the war and during the drive to grant her a pension for her services to the Union. It was reading these that convinced me Tubman had earned her place in American history. ( )