Includes such detail at the expense of the direct quotes from Tubman and reliable descriptions of real events that give her first biography This detailed description characterizes Harriet and improves stylistically on the disjointed prose of Scenes, but Bradford often
The hair" sits "part from the rest of the children, on the top rail of a fence, holding tight on to the tall gate post" (p. House of a Southern planter," while Tubman, "darker than any of the others, and with a more decided wooliness in Summer's day, perhaps sixty years ago," when "a group of merry little darkies were rolling and tumbling in the sand in front of the large For example, Bradford begins Harriet by asking readers to imagine "a hot In order to provide a continuous narrative, Bradford introduces hypothetical scenarios from her own imagined idea of Tubman's childhood that Unfortunately, Bradford's interest in producing streamlined prose leads her to take poetic license in Harriet.
Harriet, the Moses of Her People, provided little new information but did arrange the jumbled narrative of Scenes in chronological order, providing a clearer account of Tubman's life. Inġ886, Bradford substantially rewrote the biography at the request of Tubman, who hoped to raise enough funds for "the building of a hospitalįor old and disabled colored people" (p. Result, Scenes is often disjointed, skipping from anecdote to anecdote with little regard for chronology. Moses, to compile and edit Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869). But Bradford moved to Germany inġ868-before she had finished writing the book-leaving her printer, William J. Lived in nearby Geneva, New York, and had already written biographies of Peter the Great and Columbus. When Tubman and her friends decided to publish Tubman's life story, Bradford was a logical choice to author the volume: she Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1818-1912) visited her brother in Auburn, New York, during the Civil War and met Tubman's parents in a Sunday After the war, Tubman returned toĪuburn, New York, where she spoke at women's suffrage meetings with other prominent figures such as Susan B. Worked as a nurse and a spy for the Union army in South Carolina, where she was known as General Tubman. The next ten years, she frequently risked her life to liberate family members and other slaves in the area. Tubman first returned to Maryland in 1850, when she helped a niece escape from Baltimore, and over Relocating to Canada and, later, New York. Araminta "Harriet" Ross Tubman (1822-1913) was a fugitive slave whose work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad made her a legend.īorn in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849 and supported herself by working in Philadelphia hotels before
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