Harriet Tubman

By George Sullivan

Book Overview

There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me aliveBorn into slavery on a southern plantation, Harriet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439165849
• ISBN13: 9780439165846
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Dehumanizing and Revisionist Language

This book uses deeply problematic framing, referring to enslaved people as "property" and human beings seeking freedom as "fugitives." It even describes Harriet Tubman as having "failed her weaving lessons" while being held and forced into labor against her will. This clinical, detached treatment of slavery using a revisionist framing is offensive and historically tone-deaf. I do not recommend this for anyone seeking a respectful account of her life and humanity.