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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Jazynka, Kitson, author.
Book 2019

"Born into slavery in c.1820, Harriet Tubman would later run away and help scores of other African American slaves escape to freedom in the North using the 'Underground Railroad.' A nurse, scout, and advisor during the American Civil War, Harriet co-led the Combahee River Raid, in which 700 slaves were liberated. After the war, Harriet became involved in women's suffrage, or the right to vote, and opened a retirement home for sick and elderly Afr...

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African American women Biography Juvenile literature
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ISBN:
9781465485427
1465485422
Edition:
First American edition
Description:
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes index
Contents:
A girl named Araminta
Enslaved childhood
Defiance
Taste of freedom
Follow the North Star
Freedom
Canada: Land of the Free
Life on the Underground
General Tubman
A nation divided
Later in life
Remembering Harriet Tubman
Control Number:
2815368
Other Authors:
Ager, Charlotte, illustrator
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