Summary
Harriet Tubman was known as the "general" of the Underground Railroad for her many successful missions to the South and back again to free scores of slaves. She was active not only in the abolitionist cause but later in the struggle for women's suffrage. Famous in her time, she became somewhat eclipsed in later histories, though she is still studied in schools as one of the major figures in American history, African American history, and women's history. In this scholarly biography, historian Larson synthesizes a prodigious amount of source material to present the story of an extraordinary person.
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"The most fully researched study of the details of Tubman's life...." -- James M. McPherson
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.55 pounds
Pages: 402
Publisher's Notes
“What a glorious book! Kate Larson's magnificent biography of the life of the real Harriet Tubman deserves the nation's attention. Grounded in meticulous research, BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND solves the mysteries and silences about the legendary "Moses" of Underground Railroad fame. With clarity, grace, and skill, Larson brilliantly captures the truly remarkable spirit of a genuine American heroine. We are all in Larson's debt.” - Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, A SHINING THREAD OF HOPE: THE HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, Professor Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
“BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND is an extraordinary achievement. Heroically researched, movingly written, it transforms a legend into a flesh-and-blood human being and brings a critical era in our history vividly to life." -Jacquelyn D. Hall, Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
”Perhaps the best-known African American female historical figure because of her courageous work on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman's life as a warrior woman is elegantly captured in Kate Larson's riveting biography, the first one to be published for adults after a sixty-year hiatus. Because of her painstaking documentation of the wretched worlds that Tubman inhabited and ultimately recreated, readers confront a genuine hero, not the fiction of contemporary media. BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND is the story of a legendary woman we thought we knew, but Larson's portrait is more focused, more complex, more satisfying.” -Beverly Guy-Sheftall, author of GENDER TALK, Professor of Women’s Studies and English, and the Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College
“Larson's exceptionally well researched biography of Harriet Tubman draws on thorough historical detective work to offer a compelling life story.”
— Estelle B. Freedman, author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women, Professor of History, Stanford University
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