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• William B. Crawley: Great Lives

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harriet Tubman

  the Road to Freedom

  Clinton, Catherine, 1952-

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  As well as being a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, Tubman was also a scout, spy, and nurse for the Union Army.

• Harriet Tubman

  a Biography

  McGowan, James A., 1932-

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  Tubman wanted slavery abolished and was willing to assist John Brown in the Harpers Ferry raid.

• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

  Adler, David A.

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  From Tubman's own escape in 1849 to the "retirement" home she founded for elderly African Americans who were formerly enslaved to her involvement with women's suffrage.

• Harriet Tubman

  "on My Underground Railroad I Never Ran My Train Off the Track"

  Stein, R. Conrad

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  Tubman's life, from her childhood as an enslaved person to the impact she had on American history.

• I Am Harriet Tubman

  Norwich, Grace

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  A portrait of Tubman as a heroine - from her involvement in civil rights to women's suffrage.