Harriet Tubman Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century Routledge Historical Americans Series
Auteur : Oertel Kristen T.
Escaped slave, Civil War spy, scout, and nurse, and champion of women's suffrage, Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, Tubman was dubbed "Moses" by followers. But abolition and the close of the Civil War were far from the end of her remarkable career. Tubman continued to fight for black civil rights, and campaign fiercely for women?s suffrage, throughout her life.
In this vivid, concise narrative supplemented by primary documents, Kristen T. Oertel introduces readers to Tubman?s extraordinary life, from the trauma of her childhood slavery to her civil rights activism in the late nineteenth century, and in the process reveals a nation?s struggle over its most central injustices.
Acknowledgments
Part I: Harriet Tubman
Introduction
- Minty
- Moses
- General
- Aunt Harriet
- Myth, Memory, and History
Part II: Documents
Bibliography
Kristen T. Oertel is the Mary Frances Barnard Associate Professor of nineteenth-century American history at the University of Tulsa. She is the author of Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas, and co-author with Marilyn Blackwell of Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood.
Date de parution : 09-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
abolition; abolitionism; slavery; Underground Railroad; women's suffrage; suffrage; woman suffrage; female suffrage; women's rights; civil rights; Civil War; Reconstruction; Jim Crow; slave resistance; 19th century; nineteenth century; Young Man; Central Presbyterian Church; Edge Field County; Tubman’s Life; NACW; Kunta Kinte; Sally Hemings; University Of Wisconsin; Secretary Of State; Smoking Car; Dorchester County; Chicago Defender; Runaway Advertisement; Free Woman; Fugitive Slave; March; South Carolina’s Secession; Freedmen’s Aid Movement; Outstanding Negro; Stone Flew; Fugitive Slave Law; Fugitive Slave Act; Mason Dixon Line; Back Pay