The essential, "richly researched"* biography of Harriet Tubman,
revealing a complex woman who "led a remarkable life, one that her race,
her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary" (*The New
York Times Book Review).
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history--a fearless
visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled
courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this
magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a
powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her
times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as
extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a
complete human being--brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and
passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was
also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed.
Praise for Bound for the Promised Land
"[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for
Tubman's exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure
fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats
that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman's
determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled
with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others."--The
Seattle Times
"Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson
does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents,
some of them long hidden by history and neglect."--The Plain
Dealer
"Larson has captured Harriet Tubman's clandestine nature . . . reading
Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy
this country has ever produced."--The New York Sun
