The Legacy of Harriet Tubman

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The paper reveals that Catherine Clinton's biography "Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom" is considered one of the best and most comprehensive biographies of Harriet Tubman's life. The paper describes how Clinton attempts to present a historically accurate, complex and complete portrayal of Harriet Tubman. The paper notes Clinton's theme that Harriet Tubman was an ordinary individual but, through her life experiences and moral convictions, she turned into a strong and courageous leader.

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"Catherine Clinton is a renowned historian with a special interest in black history. She has authored many books in both children and adult literature on the theme of Black American history. As a professor of African American studies at Brandeis University, Brown University and Harvard, she has become an expert on the arena of Black narratives and historical biographies. Her definitive chronicling of Tubman's life in this work is fully comprehensive and immersive, one of the reasons it is such a powerful narrative work is because Clinton does not deviate from the life of Tubman, but focuses on exposing the reality of this mythical figure."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.

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