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8 de jul. de 2024 · Abolitionist Harriet Tubman is in Texas. Since 2020, she’s been traveling and spreading her message of bodily autonomy, innate freedom and self- emancipation through Wesley Wofford’s “Journey to Freedom” sculpture. That people still gather around her is the sweetest repetition of history.
24 de jun. de 2024 · The Radical Faith of Harriet Tubman A new book conveys in dramatic detail what America’s Moses did to help abolish slavery. Another addresses the love of God and country that helped her do so.
2 de jul. de 2024 · Her 19th-century biographer Sarah Bradford described her as “the black woman from the Southern states only two [generations removed] from an African savage!”
19 de jun. de 2024 · The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
26 de jun. de 2024 · NIGHT FLYER: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, by Tiya Miles. Harriet Tubman led such an eventful life — so filled with hardship, extreme peril and close calls — that even...
Hace 4 días · Tubman did not read or write; she dictated her life story to “typically white, middle-class, antislavery women,” like her first biographer, Sarah Bradford. Although usually “well-meaning,” Tubman’s amanuenses sometimes “demeaned” her, casting her as an exotic, almost otherworldly figure.
Hace 4 días · Instead, Sarah Hopkins Bradford combined Tubman's personal recollections, journalistic accounts, and letters from Tubman's friends and supporters to create Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman in 1868.
