History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1968 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bradford's Life of Tubman
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The idea
Sarah H. Bradford published Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman in eighteen sixty-nine, revised in eighteen eighty-six as Harriet, the Moses of Her People.
In practice
Bradford comparing her to Joan of Arc, Grace Darling and Florence Nightingale.
Where people slip
Bradford wrote that she had shown an amount of heroism in her character rarely possessed by those of any station in life.
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