SCPL Reads: Celebrating Harriet Tubman

National Book Award-winning author Tiya Miles' (All That She Carried) nuanced and demythologizing biography of abolitionist Harriet Tubman offers fresh insights on her life, particularly how her religious faith and ecological knowledge informed her work as an Underground Railroad conductor.

Harriet Tubman’s name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children’s literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. Jean M. Humez’s comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life—a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources.

Examines the accomplishments of Tubman, who, after escaping from the South, risked her own life and freedom to save others through the Underground Railroad and became an outspoken advocate for the abolition of slavery.

The setting: an antebellum South that looks quite like the one in our reality, only the Underground Railroad literally has train tracks, inspiring the slavecatchers to create increasingly bizarre, elaborate, and disturbing obstacles between escapees and their freedom.

The Underground Railroad shares the stories of Black men and women who escaped from slavery and fled to freedom in the North.

Introduces a collection of firsthand chronicles of the experiences of fugitive freedom-seekers traveling to the North and Canada along the Underground Railroad in the years prior to the Civil War.

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent provides a biography of this courageous freedom-seeker who worked to establish the Underground Railroad, became a Union Army spy, and helped more than seven hundred enslaved men and women find their way to freedom in the North.

The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition traces pathways taken by people, enslaved and free, who courageously made the trip north in search of liberty and offers new biographies, images, and information, some of which is augmented by a 2015 archaeological dig in downtown Toronto.

Discover the stories of the freedom-seekers, abolitionists, and conductors on the Underground Railroad through letters, newspaper articles, and biographies.

Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line nineteen times, a brave Black woman led many enslaved men and women to freedom.

Read about the life and accomplishments of the woman who, after escaping life of enslavement in the South, returned to help others escape through the Underground Railroad.

A biography of the fugitive freedom-seeker turned "conductor" on the Underground Railroad describes Tubman's youth in the South, her escape to Philadelphia, her efforts to liberate slaves, and her work for the Union Army.

A biography of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad.

The story of Harriet Tubman, a brave woman who was born enslaved in Maryland in the 1800s, risked everything to escape from her slave master and went on to lead many others to freedom on a journey known today as the Underground Railroad.

A biography of the Black woman best known for her work with the underground railroad, describing her childhood in enslavement, her escape to the North, her work during the Civil War, and more.

A biography of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led others to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who, after escaping life of enslavement in the South, returned to help others escape through the Underground Railroad.

Celebrated nonfiction author David A. Adler tells about Harriet Tubman's life and character, showing why she was so admired and beloved. A timeline of important dates is included.