Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1
A Peculiar Institution 1
Chapter 2
Neglected Weed 19
Chapter 3
From Bondage to Freedom 37
Chapter 4
The Underground Railroad 53
Chapter 5
Return to the Jaws 71
Chapter 6
Small-Scale Guerrilla Warfare 87
Chapter 7
The Struggle Widens 105
Chapter 8
“This Black Heroine” 127
Chapter 9
Impoverished Legend 147
Chapter 10
Mother Tubman 165
Why Harriet Tubman Matters 183
Timeline 195
Primary Documents 199
Bibliography 217
Index 223
Kerry Walters, PhD, is professor emeritus of philosophy at Gettysburg College. He is author or editor of over forty books, including The Underground Railroad, American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies, and Lincoln, the Rise of the Republicans, and the Coming of the Civil War.
This excellent work is a synthesis . . . , presenting Tubman as the
fascinating, headstrong, self-sacrificing, physically damaged,
financially destitute, and occasionally gullible person that she
was in historical reality. One hopes this book will find its way
into many classrooms, and that, in better days to come, she will
yet appear on our currency. Highly recommended.
*Paul Harvey, CHOICE*
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