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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railway pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
In the squalid slave quarters of a Tidewater
plantation in Maryland, Harriet Tubman
was born. She was a quict girl, but a bright
one, and her parents hoped that she might
learn a trade so that she would not have to
work in the fields. It was the most shc
could hope for, they said.
But Harriet had a dream for a better
life for her people. She heard the whisper-
ings of slave revolts, escapes from other
plantations, the underground railroad. She
acquired amazing physical strength and
moral courage; she learned to recognize
the signs in nature that would enable her
to escape. And escape she did.
But freedom was not enough. After she
escaped she went back for others. She
walked, ran, hid, coaxed, cajoled, and
prayed, until three hundred of her people
had been delivered into freedom. She be-
came the legendary "Moses" whom every
plantation owner feared, and none had
ever seen. But all her life she remained the
tender, understanding Tidewater girl she
was born.
Ann Perry brings all her controlled nar-
rative skill to bear on the heroic story of a
great woman. In vivid flowing style, she
makes Harriet Tubman into a living figure
and re-creates in vivid scenes an era of
struggle, hardship, and unshakable faith.
"It is an amazing story, and Ann Perry
has told it convincingly. Her technique of
ending each chapter with one or two ital-
icized paragraphs, highlighting some con-
temporary event in the conflict over
slavery, serves to keep Harriet s story in
focus with those unhappy times."-New
York Herald Tribune.
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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railway pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024