Description
Combining biography with the larger history of slavery, the antislavery movement, the Underground Railroad, the increasing sectionalism of the pre-Civil War era, as well as the war and post-war Reconstruction, Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom uses a variety of documents to trace the legendary life of Harriet Tubman.
Author: Lois E. Horton
Publisher: Bedford Books
Published: 02/15/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780312464516
ISBN10: 0312464517
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
Author: Lois E. Horton
Publisher: Bedford Books
Published: 02/15/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780312464516
ISBN10: 0312464517
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
About the Author
Lois E. Horton (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is Professor of History Emerita at George Mason University. Her work focuses on African American communities, race, gender, and social change. With James Oliver Horton she has written and edited numerous books, including Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory; Slavery and the Making of America; Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America; and In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. For several years she also served on the scholarly advisory committee of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.