Harriet Tubman, 1821 – 1913

Abstract

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Harriett Tubman, 1821 – 1913
A Bibliography 

Web based resources: 

Biography Resource Center database (DISCUS password required for access from home)  

Cross Searchable Products, DISCUS databases (DISCUS password required for access from home)  

 

History Reference Center database, (EBSCO password required for access from home)  

Harriet Tubman (Library of Congress) http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/tubman.html

Harriet Tubman.com http://www.harriettubman.com/

New York History Net: “The Life of Harriet Tubman” http://www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm

 

PBS: Africans in America, People and Events, Harriet Tubman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

“Gender, Race, and the Idea of Separate Spheres: Neo-Abolitionist Work in South Carolina Sea Islands,” by Wakako Araki Japanese in the Journal of American Studies, no. 19, 2008 found at http://www.soc.nii.ac.jp/jaas/periodicals/JJAS/PDF/2008/No.19-12.pdf.

Listen to historian Catherine Clinton talk about Harriet Tubman’s life in this podcast from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. (You’ll have to register with the Gilder Lehrman Institute in order to listen, but registration is free!  Registration allows you to listen to more than 100 podcasts by eminent scholars on all eras of American history.)

The History Channel highlights 6 videos and 3 photo galleries about Harriet Tubman.

Materials may be found at the following Beaufort County Library locations:

BDC – Beaufort District Collection

BEA – Beaufort Branch

BLU – Bluffton Branch

HHI – Hilton Head Branch

LOB – Lobeco Branch

STH – St. Helena Branch

 Come to the Beaufort District Collection to see these items: 

• Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913) [BDC Vertical File]

• Bridges–Combahee River Bridge [BDC Vertical File]

• Combahee River Raid, 2 June 1863 [BDC Vertical File]

  

Check out these materials from the Beaufort County Library:

B TUBMAN Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom by Catherine Clinton, 2004 (BEA, HHI)

B TUBMAN Harriet Tubman: myth, memory and history by Milton C. Sernott, 2007 (BEA)

B TUBMAN A woman called Moses [videorecording] by Paul Wendkos, 1991 (LOB, STH)

305.8961 FRE Freedom comin’ [DVD] : a Gullah kinfolk wish by Anita Singleton-Prather, 2006. (BDC, BEA, BLU, HHI, LOB) 

 

306.3622 CHR  Freeing Charles: The struggle to free a slave on the eve of the Civil War by Scott Christianson, 2010 ( BEA, BLU) 

624.27579 DED The dedication of the Harriet Tubman Bridge : [Saturday,] October 18,  2008 [DVD], Michael Allen, speaker (BDC, BEA, BLU, HHI, STH) 

920 GRE Great women in American history, V.1 [DVD] by Devin Stead, 1996 (BLU) 

920.7 GRE Great women in American history, V.1 [VHS] by Devin Stead, 1996  (BLU, HHI)

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