LEADER 05438nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910953777603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612269349 010 $a9781282269347 010 $a1282269348 010 $a9780299191238 010 $a0299191230 035 $a(CKB)1000000000485726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000168989 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177382 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168989 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10203879 035 $a(PQKB)11654742 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444764 035 $a(Perlego)4408394 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000485726 100 $a20030311d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHarriet Tubman $ethe life and the life stories /$fJean M. Humez 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (489 pages) 225 1 $aWisconsin studies in autobiography 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299191207 311 08$a0299191206 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 409-441) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Life -- The Slavery Years -- The Underground Railroad Years -- The War Years -- The Postwar Years in Auburn -- The Later Years -- Coping with Poverty -- Part 2: The Life Stories -- Harriet Tubman's Practices as a Life-Storyteller -- Reading the Core Stories for Harriet Tubman's Own Perspective -- Part 3: Stories and Sayings -- Part 4: Documents -- Appendix A: A Note on Harriet Tubman's Kin -- Appendix B: A Note on the Numbers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 8 $aHarriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez's comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life-a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources. This book will become a landmark resource for scholars, historians, and general readers interested in slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and African American women. Born in slavery in Maryland in or around 1820, Tubman drew upon deep spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped to the north in 1849. Vowing to liberate her entire family, she made repeated trips south during the 1850s and successfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. During the Civil War she was recruited to act as spy and scout with the Union Army. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she worked to support an extended family and in her later years founded a home for the indigent aged. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a variety of private and public documents from the 1850s through the 1870s, she was rediscovered as a race heroine by woman suffragists and the African American women's club movement in the early twentieth century. Her story was used as a key symbolic resource in education, institutional fundraising, and debates about the meaning of "race" throughout the twentieth century. Humez includes an extended discussion of Tubman's work as a public performer of her own life history during the nearly sixty years she lived in the north. Drawing upon historiographical and literary discussion of the complex hybrid authorship of slave narrative literature, Humez analyzes the interactive dynamic between Tubman and her interviewers. Humez illustrates how Tubman, though unable to write, made major unrecognized contributions to the shaping of her own heroic myth by early biographers like Sarah Bradford. Selections of key documents illustrate how Tubman appeared to her contemporaries, and a comprehensive list of primary sources represents an important resource for scholars. 410 0$aWisconsin studies in autobiography. 606 $aEnslaved persons$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography 606 $aUnderground Railroad 606 $aEnslaved persons$zUnited States$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life 606 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 615 0$aEnslaved persons 615 0$aAfrican American women 615 0$aUnderground Railroad. 615 0$aEnslaved persons$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 676 $a973.7/115/092 676 $aB 700 $aHumez$b Jean McMahon$f1944-$0143684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953777603321 996 $aHarriet Tubman$92806624 997 $aUNINA