Milton C Sernett

Harriet Tubman

Myth, Memory, and History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the way history, meaning, and memory have interacted in the process of transforming Harriet Tubman into an American icon and a figure of inspiration like Abraham Lincoln or Fredrick Douglass.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340522
• ISBN-10: 0822340526
• Artikelnr.: 22882332

Autorenporträt

Milton C. Sernett

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. “Minty” 11
2. “Moses the Deliverer” 41
3. “General Tubman” 73
4. Sarah Bradford’s Harriet Tubman 105
5. Saint, Seer, and Suffragist 131
6. The Apotheosis of “Aunt Harriet” 165
7. Earl Conrad and the Book That Almost Wasn’t 195
8. “Spirits Rising” 225
9. Pride of Place 255
10. Historians Have Their Say 293
Appendix 321
Notes 325
Bibliography 371
Index 395