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Harriet Tubman
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From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.”
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with lively imagined vignettes that transform the legendary icon into flesh and blood. We travel with Tubman on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad, and onto the battlefields of the Civil War. Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings an American hero to life as never before.
Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with lively imagined vignettes that transform the legendary icon into flesh and blood. We travel with Tubman on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad, and onto the battlefields of the Civil War. Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings an American hero to life as never before.
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Anna
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“I enjoyed the way the author told the story of Harriet Tubman’s life. The author acknowledged the methods of research, but still told her life as a story effectively.”
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Rachel Jackson
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“Without a doubt the worst biography I have ever read. Maybe even the worst history book I've ever read. Nothing in this book tells any real, important detail of Harriet Tubman's life that I didn't already know. Author Beverly Lowry writes like the novelist she apparently is, concocting a story out of nowhere with pseudo-beautified language, but telling the reader nothing of note about this towering woman in American history.
As other reviewers have said, the title alone should have been an indication of the type of book this is: Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life. So yes, I understand that not every single detail of Tubman's life was accounted for, so Lowry would have to speculate some. And there are cases where such speculation can be done accurately and tactfully, but neither of those adverbs fits for this book. Lowry spent the entire book talking about inconsequential details of Tubman's life, her clothing, her favorite foods, the weather; but she didn't discuss anything about her amazing feats beyond vague details. She hardly touches on Tubman's escape. She glosses over her returns to slave territories to bring back her family and other slaves to the free states up north. She rushes through her involvement in the John Brown affair. She still then talks about other Civil War participants in the section called "The General" about Tubman's time during the Civil War. Then, she takes the easy way out in the end of the book and essentially says, "Welp, that's all we know about the end of Harriet Tubman's life. Now she's dead. Bye!"
Lowry's writing is incredibly irritating, especially her use of fragmented sentences and questionable punctuation which seemed to me a poor attempt to create suspense in some of Tubman's most intense life events. It's clear Lowry is a novelist first and not a biographer, given both the terrible writing and the shoddy research. I was hoping to read an interesting biography on Harriet Tubman and educate myself on who she really was, but the book told me nothing and in fact angered me more than enlightened me to anything.”
Laura Minnich
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