A fresh portrait of this iconic American—and the first to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.
For all Harriet Tubman’s accomplishments and the myriad books written about her, many gaps, errors, and misconceptions of her legendary life persist. One such fallacy is that Sarah H. (Hopkins) Bradford is to blame for omitted nformation in Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People and and that she ended her second book too soon. But according to her family, it was Tubman’s physical disability, the result of a head injury she incurred as a child, that left her unable to complete the necessary lengthy interview process with Sarah and properly flesh out the work.
Harriet Tubman: Military Spy and Tenacious Visionary sets out to rectify these omissions and many others. The time is long overdue as recognition and fervor over Tubman’s remarkable contributions to American history and civil libert
