| |
| |
| Foreword | |
| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| List of Map and Illustrations | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction: An Uncommon Woman and Her Times | |
| |
| |
| Myth and Reality | |
| |
| |
| Slavery in Maryland | |
| |
| |
| The Multiracial Underground Railroad and Antislavery Movement | |
| |
| |
| Radical Antislavery | |
| |
| |
| Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | |
| |
| |
| The Moses of Her People | |
| |
| |
| Growing Sectional Tensions and Greater Militancy | |
| |
| |
| Tubman and the Antislavery Network | |
| |
| |
| John Brown's War | |
| |
| |
| The Divisive Politics of 1860 and a Perilous Rescue | |
| |
| |
| Fighting the War to End Slavery | |
| |
| |
| Tubman's Postwar Life | |
| |
| |
| Tubman's Life into the Twentieth Century | |
| |
| |
| Harriet Tubman in History and Memory | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Documents | |
| |
| |
| |
| U.S. Constitution, Provision regarding Fugitive Slaves, 1787 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Fugitive Slave Law, 1793 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Austin Bearse, Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston, 1818-1830 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Solomon Northup, Kidnapped into Slavery, 1853 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Eliza Ann Brodess, Runaway Advertisement, 1849 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Liberator, Slave-Hunters in Boston, November 1, 1850 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Thomas Garrett, Sending Underground Railroad Passengers to Philadelphia, 1854 | |
| |
| |
| |
| William Still, Moses Arrives with Six Passengers, 1872 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Boston Vigilance Committee, Fugitive Slaves Aided by the Vigilance Committee since the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill 1850,1850-1858 | |
| |
| |
| |
| John Brown, Letter to John Brown Jr., April 8,1858 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Liberator, Tubman Addresses Fourth of July Meeting, July 8, 1859 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Lewis Hayden, Letter, to John Brown, September 16, 1859 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Douglass' Monthly, Charles Nalle Rescue, June 1860 | |
| |
| |
| |
| William Wells Brown, Emancipation Eve, December 31, 1862 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Commonwealth, Account of Combahee River Raid, July 10, 1863 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Commonwealth, Solicitation of Aid for Harriet Tubman, August 12, 1864 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Freedmen's Record, Moses, March 1865 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Thomas Garrett, Memories of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, June 1868 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Frederick Douglass and Wendell Phillips, Testimonials, June and August 1868 | |
| |
| |
| |
| William Wells Brown, Moses, 1874 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Tubman Biographies, 1869 and 1886 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Harriet Tubman Davis, Affidavit, May 28,1892 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Harriet Tubman Davis, Affidavit, November 10, 1894 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Wilbur H. Siebert, Letter to Earl Conrad, September 4, 1940 | |
| |
| |
| |
| U.S. Senate, Committee on Pensions Report, 1899 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Syracuse Herald, To End Days in Home She Founded, June 4, 1911 | |
| |
| |
| |
| New York Times, Harriet Tubman Davis Obituary, March 14, 1913 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Auburn Citizen, Harriet Tubman Memorialized, June 11, 1914 | |
| |
| |
| Appendixes | |
| |
| |
| A Chronology of the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) | |
| |
| |
| Questions for Consideration | |
| |
| |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| |
| |
| Index | |