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A guide to Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore : the old home is not there

2021

Format:	Book
Author:	Hesser, Phillip, author.
Title:	A guide to Harriet Tubman's Eastern Shore : the old home is not there / Phillip Hesser & Charlie Ewers ; foreword by Harriet Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson.
Publisher, Date:	Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	327 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm illustration map
Summary:	"When Harriet Tubman crossed the line to freedom in Pennsylvania, she left behind her home in Maryland, along with a life of enslavement. Her native land made Tubman the person she became to history: Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, suffragist and advocate for the aged and disabled. Authors Phillip Hesser and Charlie Ewers explore the landscape of Tubman's life, from the slave quarters to the churches to the marshes and fields where she worked. Travel to nineteenth-century Dorchester County and search for the places that Harriet Tubman would never know again--some of them now lost to sinking lands and rising waters."-- Back cover.
Subjects:	Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913. Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography. African American women -- Biography. Underground Railroad. Dorchester County (Md.) -- History. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- History.
Other Author:	Ewers, Charlie, author. Larson, Kate Clifford, writer of foreword.
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:	Foreword / Kate Clifford Larson -- Preface / Phillip Hesser -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Kimberly Cornish -- 1. The house has been pulled down / Brice Stump -- 2. The land of Egypt / Angela Crenshaw -- 3. A neglected weed / Dornell Woolford -- 4. The sting of the whip / Susan Meredith -- 5. A stunning blow / Jay Meredith -- 6. The rudest labors / Tom and Kate Bradshaw -- 7. Confidence in the word of God / Gary L. Moore -- 8. Blessed of my father / Shirlyn Henry Brown -- 9. A long, lonely journey / Clara Small -- 10. Through the deep waters / Linda Duyer -- 11. Tribute is finally being paid / Kisha Petticolas and Dion Banks -- 12. "I'm here, and I'm going to stay" / Victoria Jackson-Stanley -- Reflections / Charlie Ewers -- Afterword / Dana Paterra -- Index -- About the authors.
LCCN:	2021937069
ISBN:	9781467149297 (paperback) 1467149292 (paperback)
Other Number:	1252763883
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When Harriet Tubman crossed the line to freedom in Pennsylvania, she left behind her home in Maryland, along with a life of enslavement. Her native land made Tubman the person she became to history: Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, suffragist and advocate for the aged and disabled. Authors Phillip Hesser and Charlie Ewers explore the landscape of Tubman's life, from the slave quarters to the churches to the marshes and fields where she worked. Travel to nineteenth-century Dorchester County and search for the places that Harriet Tubman would never know again--some of them now lost to sinking lands and rising waters.

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