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| Title: | Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kate Clifford Larson |
| ISBN: | 0345456270; 9780345456274; 0345456289 (pbk.); 9780345456281 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-388) and index. Content: Life on the Chesapeake in black and white -- Sweet gum and prickly burrs : the changing world of the Eastern shore -- "Devilish" mistresses and harsh masters : black family life under the lash -- "Shadow of a voice in the talking leaves" : the hidden world of black communication -- "Mean to be free" : the fragile light of liberty -- All for the love of family -- Stampede of slaves -- Moses meets John Brown -- Fractured family -- It was raining blood : Harriet Tubman's Civil War -- A hero is remembered -- Myth and memory -- Mother Tubman, the black Joan of Arc. |
| Description: | xxi, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Life on the Chesapeake in black and white -- Sweet gum and prickly burrs : the changing world of the Eastern shore -- "Devilish" mistresses and harsh masters : black family life under the lash -- "Shadow of a voice in the talking leaves" : the hidden world of black communication -- "Mean to be free" : the fragile light of liberty -- All for the love of family -- Stampede of slaves -- Moses meets John Brown -- Fractured family -- It was raining blood : Harriet Tubman's Civil War -- A hero is remembered -- Myth and memory -- Mother Tubman, the black Joan of Arc. |
| Responsibility: | Kate Clifford Larson. |
| Named Person: | Tubman, Harriet, |
| Year: | c2004. |
| Publisher: | New York : Ballantine, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2004297886 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: E444.T82; Dewey No.: 973.7/115/092; Dewey No.: B |
| More information: | Contributor biographical information Sample text Publisher description Table of contents |
| OCLC No.: | 53959428 |
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