Harriet Tubman (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Petry
- First Published: 1955
- Time of Work: 1820–1914
- Setting: Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Canada
- Principal Characters: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Greene, Benjamin Ross, Thomas Garrett, William Still, John Brown, John Tubman, Edward Brodas, Dr. Anthony Thompson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Freedom, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Underground railroad, Biography
- Locales: New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, South Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware
Form and Content
Ann Petry’s Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is a straightforward, dramatically compelling, well-researched biography on one of the leading figures in the so-called Underground Railroad that guided slaves from the South to freedom in the North and helped to accelerate the abolition of slavery in the United States. Harriet Tubman contains twenty-two chapters, which focus on particular periods in Tubman’s life. They tend to be self-contained, and the focus remains tightly on Tubman throughout the text. The only exception...
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