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historybuffJC1
Posted August 10, 2011
Excellent addition! Very readable!
After years of reading the juvenile versions of Harriet Tubman's life to my students, I wanted to know the REAL story. This was exactly what I was looking for. It was very well researched with a lot of details about her family, friends, and aquaintances, as well as the many areas where she lived and worked. I was amazed to discover that she was way more than a conductor on the Underground Railroad (as amazing as that is in itself), but was also a nurse, spy and even a leader in a major invasion in the southern states. I liked the way the author admitted when there were historical gaps in what is actually known and supplied the reader with facts that are known about the time instead of "imagining" things to fill the void. There are certainly enough interesting facts in this book without making any up.
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Anonymous
Posted December 3, 2006
an excellent nonfiction work
This book is impressive and a terrific read, a very well written nonfiction work. There's also a wonderful fictionalized account in novel form of the life of Harriet Tubman. It's 'Home, Miss Moses.' Check that one out as well. It's well worth it. I loved them both.
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Anonymous
Posted January 18, 2004
strong insightful biography
THE ROAD TO FREEDOM is a superb account of the American ¿Black Moses¿, Harriet Tubman. The book actually opens with Ms. Tubman¿s last major public endeavor surprisingly (at least to this author) occurring in 1908 long after her famous role as an engineer of the Underground Railroad. The bio then shifts back to the early nineteenth century as Ms Tubman is born during ironically the ¿Era of Good Feeling¿ as a slave in Maryland. It follows her as she marries John Tubman, flees to Canada without him, joins John Brown, works as a Civil War nurse and spy, and of course the Underground Railroad.. Of interest is that Ms. Tubman not only advocated racial freedom, she championed women's suffrage. <P>Ms. Tubman¿s salad days lack insightful personal information due to her slave status and a 1850s fire. Therefore Ms. Clinton provides a general look at conditions for slaves in Eastern Shore, Maryland. This generalization enables the audience to infer how Harriet probably lived in her early years. Deeper insight is provided to her middle and later years this is a suburb account that biography readers will appreciate because it is well written, easy to follow, and loaded with plenty on interesting detail about a genuine American hero. Though the author too easily accepts the ¿legendary¿ Tubman as gospel, HARRIET TUBMAN: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM is an endearing educational and entertaining book that history buffs and biography aficionados will enjoy. <P>Harriet Klausner
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Anonymous
Posted March 29, 2013
I LOVE HARROIT TUBMAN
Harroit tubam
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Anonymous
Posted February 25, 2013
It was okay
It took a long time to get the book going but for a biography it was good
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Anonymous
Posted February 23, 2013
Very Very Sad
Slavery is such a sad time. In colonial times there was STILL SLAVERY and people think slavery is a joke but it's not. It's not funny AT ALL slavery is ju- ju- just very mordifing and people laugh it's not funny at all. Some slaves were raped( to be forced to have SEX with your boss or master to have SEX SEX SEX and Harriet Tubman tryed to stop that slavery nonscence by going to the Underground Railroad and they put out posters because Harriet escaped annd they tryed to find her but then she got away from slavery !!!!! Harriet Tubman got other slaves out too but then if anyone got scared and turned back she would put a gun to their head and then she would tell them" your going to stay because you'll die from them because them masters will kill you so don't you dare go back!" So Harriet Tubman didn't take NO STUFF!!!
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Anonymous
Posted June 15, 2012
Good
Interesting, enlightening, & informative. It did seem to me that it got slightly off topic at times, talking a lot about slavery & the Civil War & taking quite while lbefore it explained how what it said related to Tubman (if it ever did). I even think there may have been a chapter that never once said her name! But that may just be me...
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Anonymous
Posted March 4, 2004
Informative comfortable read, sensitive
Amazing how so much information could be included in a story that depicts Harriet Tubman's heroic life with such sensitivity.
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Posted April 6, 2011
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