Harriet Tubman
The Road to Freedom

"If you are tired, keep going; if you are scared, keep going' if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going." - Harriet Tubman I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one or two things I had a right to, liberty or death; If I could not have one, I would have the other.......more

Harriet Tubman’s courage echoes across the ages. Having escaped from slavery in the antebellum South, she repeatedly returned to the South to help others escape from slavery. She used her close observations of landscape and human character as an anti-slavery activist, and eventually as a scout for t......more

Surprisingly influential in my understanding of feminism, activism, and intersectionality: inspired by Tubman's life's work and the ways selected pieces have been elevated or eliminated from the historical narrative. Couple with Bell Hooks and Michelle Alexander writing about Radical Love for a comp......more

I picked this up alongside another Harriet Tubman bio, Bound for the Promised Land, and wound up primarily reading that one while alternately reading and skimming this. Both biographers emphasize the fact that when they published, there had been no adult biography of Tubman written since the 1940s—I......more

What people sometimes forget is that Harriet Tubman held a gun to the head of slaves who wanted to stop, to quit, to return to their masters or lay stranded in the forest. This book is a reminder of that harsh woman, of the enduring person who would not take no for an answer.......more