Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land

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Known widely as a simple and courageous mother figure, in fact Harriet Tubman was an intelligent, crafty, fearless visionary who transcended assumptions about black women’s abilities, leading scores of enslaved people to freedom.

Drawing from a trove of primary documents as well as extensive genealogical research, historian Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land reveals Tubman as a complex woman—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom.  

Since writing the first adult biography of Tubman, Professor Larson has consulted with numerous public history initiatives related to Harriet Tubman's life and her role in the Underground Railroad. At this expanded book talk, she'll discuss new scholarship about Tubman—including the recently discovered portrait of her as a young woman—and recent efforts to memorialize this brave hero in her native Maryland and in New York state.

Copies of Bound for the Promised Land will be available for purchase and signing at the event.