Scenes in the Life of Harriet TubmanSarah H. BradfordOmniClassics · Literature
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Sarah H. BradfordAn early biography records Harriet Tubman's escape and her work helping others reach freedom.
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About the book
Sarah H. Bradford gathers episodes from Harriet Tubman's life, presenting her escape from slavery and repeated efforts to bring other enslaved people to freedom. The account moves between perilous journeys, family obligations, religious conviction, and Tubman's service during the Civil War. Letters and supporting testimony accompany the narrative, which was prepared partly to raise money for a woman whose extraordinary work had not secured her material comfort. This is Bradford's early Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, not her later expanded biography. Its admiration is unmistakable, and Tubman's voice reaches the reader through an author's arrangement and contemporary witnesses. That mediation makes the book both a biographical record and an artifact of advocacy.
- Escape from slavery
- Courage and mutual aid
- Biography and advocacy
Why read it
Encounter an early effort to document Tubman's work and secure recognition while she was still living.
English text of Bradford's 1869 biography