Table of Contents
Foreword iii
Preface v
List of Map and Illustrations xii
Part 1 Introduction: An Uncommon Woman and Her Times 1
Myth and Reality 1
Slavery in Maryland 3
The Multiracial Underground Railroad and Antislavery Movement 11
Radical Antislavery 14
Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 17
The Moses of Her People 20
Growing Sectional Tensions and Greater Militancy 33
Tubman and the Antislavery Network 37
John Brown's War 42
The Divisive Politics of 1860 and a Perilous Rescue 52
Fighting the War to End Slavery 56
Tubman's Postwar Life 74
Tubman's Life into the Twentieth Century 80
Harriet Tubman in History and Memory 85
Part 2 The Documents 101
1 U.S. Constitution, Provision regarding Fugitive Slaves, 1787 103
2 Fugitive Slave Law, 1793 104
3 Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 106
4 Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston, 1818-1830 110
5 Solomon Northup, Kidnapped into Slavery, 1853 112
6 Eliza Ann Brodess, Runaway Advertisement, 1849 116
7 Liberator, Slave-Hunters in Boston, November 1, 1850 117
8 Thomas Garrett, Sending Underground Railroad Passengers to Philadelphia, 1854 119
9 William Still, Moses Arrives with Six Passengers, 1872 120
10 Boston Vigilance Committee, Fugitive Slaves Aided by the Vigilance Committee since the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill 1850,1850-1858 122
11 John Brown, Letter to John Brown Jr., April 8,1858 124
12 Liberator, Tubman Addresses Fourth of July Meeting, July 8, 1859 126
13 Lewis Hayden, Letter, to John Brown, September 16, 1859 127
14 Douglass' Monthly, Charles Nalle Rescue, June 1860 128
15 William Wells Brown, Emancipation Eve, December 31, 1862 130
16 Commonwealth, Account of Combahee River Raid, July 10, 1863 132
17 Commonwealth, Solicitation of Aid for Harriet Tubman, August 12, 1864 133
18 Freedmen's Record, Moses, March 1865 134
19 Thomas Garrett, Memories of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, June 1868 140
20 Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips, Testimonials, June and August 1868 142
21 William Wells Brown, Moses, 1874 144
22 Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Tubman Biographies, 1869 and 1886 145
23 Harriet Tubman Davis, Affidavit, May 28,1892 149
24 Harriet Tubman Davis, Affidavit, November 10, 1894 150
25 Wilbur H. Siebert, Letter to Earl Conrad, September 4, 1940 152
26 U.S. Senate, Committee on Pensions Report, 1899 153
27 Syracuse Herald, To End Days in Home She Founded, June 4, 1911 156
28 New York Times, Harriet Tubman Davis Obituary, March 14, 1913 158
29 Auburn Citizen, Harriet Tubman Memorialized, June 11, 1914 159
Appendixes
A Chronology of the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) 161
Questions for Consideration 163
Selected Bibliography 165
Index 171
