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"SCENES IN THE LIFE OF HARRIET TUBMAN"
Rare book, "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman" (Auburn, New York: W. J. Moses), 1869. First edition, 139 pp. with a frontispiece portrait of Tubman. Some light wear to spine and cover edges, contents very fine and clean. Not recorded in Brignano and Matthews. Blockson 3950. A rare first edition of Sarah H. Bradford''s 1869 book about Harriet Tubman who used the proceeds from its sale to pay the mortgage on Tubman''s Auburn, New York home. Harriet Tubman (c. 1821-1913) was a fugitive slave, abolitionist, nurse, Union spy, and social reformer. Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was the daughter of slaves Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green and originally named "Araminta" by her master. She defied slave custom and used her mother''s name instead. In 1844, her mother forced her to marry John Tubman, a free man, but just five years later in 1849, she escaped to Philadelphia, guided by the North Star and aided by conductors along the Underground Railroad. However, not finding happiness in her new life, she made approximately nineteen trips back into the South to rescue some 300 slaves. In 1857, she rescued her parents and resettled them in Auburn, New York. During the Civil War, Tubman labored as a nurse, cook, scout and spy for the Union Army. Later in her life, she worked in both the temperance and women''s rights movements. Ever since the announcement that Tubman''s portrait would be on a new U.S. $20.00 bill, this book has become nearly unobtainable.


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