{"product_id":"harriet-the-moses-of-her-people-tubman","title":"Harriet: The Moses of Her People [Tubman]","description":"149 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped rules, floral endpapers. Expanded from Bradford's 1869 work Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman, which was based on interviews with Tubman and published (with the financial help of Gerrit Smith and Wendell Phillips) to raise funds in her support. Bradford states in the preface: 'There was pressing need for this book, to save the poor woman's little home from being sold under a mortgage, and letters and facts were penned down rapidly, as they came in. The book has now been in part re-written and the letters and testimonials placed in an appendix.' As such, the volume offered here is a second edition of the first full-length biography of Tubman, an escaped slave who was instrumental in using the Underground Railroad to save hundreds of other enslaved African Americans. She also helped John Brown plan and recruit for his famous raid on Harper's Ferry. She later advocated for women's suffrage, and has become a symbol of the abolitionist movement in the United States. As Bradford referenced, an appendix includes extracts from letters about Tubman written by the likes of Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, William H. Seward, and Gerrit Smith, along with an account of Tubman's role in the 1859 fugitive slave rescue in Troy, New York. Also preceding the text are new letters for this edition by Oliver Johnson and Professor Samuel Miles Hopkins. The author, Sarah Hopkins Bradford, was one of the first women authors to specialize in children's literature. She was born in Geneva, New York, and lived much of her life in Rochester, NY. Proximity to the latter may explain her fascination with abolitionist history: Rochester was home to a great deal of activism, and drew such advocates as Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.","brand":"Geo. R. Lockwood \u0026 Son","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40417594933318,"sku":"2329638","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2329638.jpg?v=1669483918","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/harriet-the-moses-of-her-people-tubman","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}