Harriet Tubman

<p>Escaped slave Civil War spy scout and nurse and champion of women's suffrage Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad Tubman was dubbed Moses by followers. But abolition and the close of the Civil War were far from the end of her remarkable career. Tubman continued to fight for black civil rights and campaign fiercely for women's suffrage throughout her life.</p> <p>In this vivid concise narrative supplemented by primary documents Kristen T. Oertel introduces readers to Tubman's extraordinary life from the trauma of her childhood slavery to her civil rights activism in the late nineteenth century and in the process reveals a nation's struggle over its most central injustices.</p>