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The backstory helps readers visualize her as a full person.
Colored Troops, as they were then called.) If we want to know Harriet Tubman’s heart, we need all of it. Most people don’t know she was married twice: once before the Civil War to a man who broke her heart, and afterwards to a man who shared her thirst for freedom and justice. When we put her on a pedestal, we let ourselves off the hook for not being courageous about the challenges of our own time. Tubman challenges all of us to be better people. Realizing that, feeling that, will make readers love her more, I hope. “She was our nation’s greatest female patriot, yet she also struggled and made mistakes. “I hope people will take away that she was a real person, with hopes, fears, loves, and regrets-just like us,” Cobbs explains. Through the dramatic events leading up to and during this raid, Cobbs brings Harriet Tubman to life as a leader and a lover. The episode Cobbs refers to is the Combahee River Raid of June 1863. Honestly, I just wanted to figure out how she did it.” This is a part of her career that’s typically brushed over-perhaps because it’s so hard to believe that a such a tiny woman could pull off what she did, at a time when the Union seemed on the verge of defeat. As author Elizabeth Cobbs explains: “Most people know her from the Underground Railroad, but she was also a Union spy who received a military pension after the Civil War. Yet that’s not the part of Tubman’s life that is the focus of The Tubman Command. In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped slavery, crossing into Pennsylvania and finding safety in Philadelphia, but almost immediately she began working to help others find freedom, leading groups of slaves toward safety via the Underground Railroad. Tubman suffered from severe headaches and epilepsy for the rest of her life as a result. As a teenager, she was hit on the head during a confrontation between an owner and another slave. She grew up on the Brodass family plantation in Madison but was regularly hired out to other families, working as a nursemaid to other children at the age of six. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in the 1820s. She may have to wait a few more years to make her appearance on the US twenty-dollar bill, but Harriet Tubman has been brought vividly to life in a new novel, The Tubman Command (Simon & Schuster, 2019). Getting to the Heart of Harriet Tubman: The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs
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