Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories/Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Beyond the "Mosses" Myths Two new biographies examine who Harriet Tubman really was Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez University of Wisconsin Press November 2003 $45.00, ISBN 0-299-19120-6

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton Little, Brown and Company, February 2004 $25.95, ISBN 0-316-14492-4

The "peculiar institution" of American slavery ended less than 150 years ago, endured for more than three centuries and claimed millions of black lives before it was finally abolished. Yet the war against slavery in the United States began long before 1865, and went way beyond public antislavery efforts. In fact, the earliest forms of …