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Selected Readings


Following is a selection of works about Harriet Tubman.

New Biographies of Harriet Tubman:

Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Little Brown and Company, 2004, 272 pp.

Humez, Jean M. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, 464 pp.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine Books, 2003, 432 pp.

Other Biographies of Harriet Tubman

Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. W. J. Moses, printer, 1869, 149pp.

Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Ayer Publishing, Salem, NH: 1992. reprint of 1869 edition.

Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People. G. R. Lockwood & Son, 1886, 149 pp.

Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Company, 1997 reprint of 1886 publication, 149pp, illus.

Conrad, Earl. General Harriet Tubman. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1943, 248 pp.

Tubman and the Underground Railroad or the Civil War

Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad. New York: Berkley Books, 1989.

Breyfogle, William. Make Free: The Story of the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958.

Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1961.

McGowan, James A. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett, Station Master on the Underground Railroad. Moylan, PA: Whimsie Press, 1977.

Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. New York: DaCapo Press, 1989; originally published, 1953.

Quarles, Benjamin. "Harriet Tubman's Unlikely Leadership," in Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Article, 13 pp.

Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom. New York: MacMillian Company, 1898.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: W. Still, 1872.

Thomas, Owen A. Niagara's Freedom Trail: A Guide to African-Canadian History on the Niagara Peninsula. Canada: The Region Niagara Tourist Council, 1995.

Walls, William J. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Reality of the Black Church. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1974.

Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1992.

Juvenile Literature

Adler, David. A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman. New York, NY: Holiday House, 1992. Illus.

Bains, Rae. Harriet Tubman and the Road to Freedom. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1982. 48 pp.

Benjamin, Anne. Young Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1992. 32 pp., illus.

Bentley, Judith. Harriet Tubman. New York, NY: F. Watts, 1990. 144 pp. illus.

Grant, Matthew G. Harriet Tubman: Black Liberator. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, Distributed by Children's Press, Chicago, 1974. 63 pp. illus.

Kelton, Nancy. Rebel Slave. Milwaukee, WI: Raintree Editions, Distributed by Children's Press, Chicago, IL. 1977. 31 pp. illus.

Lawrence, Jacob. Harriet and the Promised Land. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. Juvenile poetry., illus.

McMullan, Kate. The Story of Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Milwaukee, WI: G. Stevens Pub., 1997. 108 pp. illus.

Meyer, Linda D. Harriet Tubman: They Called Me Moses. Seattle, WA: Parenting Press, 1998. 24 pp.

Petry, Ann Lane. Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad. New York, NY: Crowell. 1955. 247 pp.

Ringgold, Faith. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. New York: NY: Crown, 1992. Illus.

Schroeder, Alan. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996, illlus.

Sterling, Dorothy, Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman. New York: Scholastic Books, 1954.

Sterling, Philip and Rayford Logan. Four Who Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. 116 pp.


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