Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland and went back again and again to lead others north along the Underground Railroad, later serving the Union as scout, spy and nurse. Sarah Bradford gathered Tubman’s own stories and the testimony of those who knew her, adding further incidents, an appendix of letters and an account of a fugitive slave rescue at Troy.
An early and indispensable source on Tubman, though Bradford’s tone and rendering of dialect belong to the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.