Harriet Tubman The Road To Freedom Summary

Historian Catherine Clinton wrote, “Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom” was well researched, descriptive, and very detailed, much more than other books that have been written on Harriet Tubman. It draws on the extensive historical writings of recent years, about slavery and the Civil War that places Tubman’s life within those time lines. Through her descriptions of the black Philadelphia in which Tubman founds herself after she escape in 1849, to the history of the underground Railroad and its impact, and the aftermath of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Clinton writes in-depth details about Tubman’s experiences of the civil war in the southern coastal states. Catherine Clinton: Road to Freedom, describes Harriet Tubman as Illiterate, but deeply religious woman. Clinton’s tone in her writing about Tubman, show no signs of a affection and is completely passionless towards Tubman. This book had a distant tone about it, and I could tell there was quite a bit more distance between author and subject, then the book that was written by Beverly Lowry. “Clinton manages to write a great book despite her frequent admissions of, “I don't know” or “due to the fact,” that Tubman remained illiterate her entire life.” I thought the first half

She also uses the word like perhaps, to many times, which seems to me to be just semi-guessing the facts. This book lacks sparkle, passion, and emotion. This book from my point-of-view, was just a manner of fact attitude towards Tubman. The only time I felt real emotion that Clinton had any affection at all for Tubman was in the preface page x in the third paragraph, where Clinton states, “Harriet Tubman had been a liberator, a woman who stood up to the slave power, and a warrior whose actions spoke louder than