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In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your kids can find out about history's most significant people and happenings in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but extensive audiobook could keep your kid's attention all the way to the finish.Harriet Tubman is one of the very most famous women in American history, and from an early time, every American learns of her contributions to abolition and the Underground Railroad. The girl who became known as the Moses of her people privately led more than 13 expeditions to free slaves in the South, and she was so crucial in helping escaped slaves achieve independence that her name is practically synonymous with the Underground Railroad today.If anything, the central role she played in the Underground Railroad has become so ingrained among subsequent decades that Tubman's life has been shrouded in star, and other important aspects have been overlooked. To be able to fully appreciate and understand Harriet Tubman's life and quite role she played in the abolitionist movements, it's important to examine the circumstances in which she grew up and what happenings drove her to the road she chose. Anthropologist Douglas Armstrong records, "[S]o little information about Tubman has been based on fact therefore much based on myth and created history" so it has only been that historians have "come to the main point where we can discover her true contributions."In fact, Tubman's lifetime consisted of struggles and persistence, whether she was struggling with with respect to slaves, the Union military through the Civil Battle, or women's privileges. After managing to flee the severe beatings and humiliation of slavery herself, she put her life on the line over and over again to help others. She could proudly boast, "I got the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the keep track of and I never lost a passenger."But that was only part of her engagement with abolition; Tubman was well-acquainted with other famous abolitionists of her time, including Frederick Douglass and John Brown, and she threw herself into work to further the reason for abolition in a variety of ways. Her life and work were publicized practically 50 years before her fatality by Franklin Sanborn, who worked well as an editor in an abolitionist newspapers and detailed the work of the Underground Railroad in the Boston Commonwealth in 1863.History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Harriet Tubman profiles the life, legends, and legacies of one of America's most well-known and influential women.
