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.
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.
Milton C. Sernett is Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and History at Syracuse University. Among his books are African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness and Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration, both also published by Duke University Press, and North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom.
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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
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
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