HARRIET TUBMAN: The Road to Freedom.
by Clinton, Catherine
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Little Brown,, (2004). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The first full scale biography of this important figure in American history. Illiterate but deeply religious, Tubman fled Maryland in her early20s and escaped to Philadelphia, but within a year was drawn back to the South, first to help family members slated for auction and then to rescue others. She became the first and only woman, and one of the few fugitive slaves to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. When the Civil War broke out, Tubman acted as a scout and a spy while serving with the Union Army in North Carolina. Notes, bibliography. vii, 259 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 84630
- Title
- HARRIET TUBMAN: The Road to Freedom.
- Author
- Clinton, Catherine
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon ARC.
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- (2004)
- Keywords
- biography, black moses, underground railroad, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Slavery Abolition Reconstruction;
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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