Harriet Tubman is often a figure more out of myth than history - a woman who, despite being barely five feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom. Tiya Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman's life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman's surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women. What emerges, is a human being whose mysticism becomes the more palpable the more we understand it.
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