Jean M Humez Harriet Tubman: The Li...

Jean M Humez Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. Madison: U of Wisconsin P 2004 484 pp ISBN 0-299-19120-6 $4500

Harriet Tubman, the legendary escaped slave who guided scores of slaves to freedom, has been the make submissive of well over a hundr children's works yet no major biography of her life has been produc since 1943 common might argue that this contradiction demonstrates the ways in which Tubman, the mythic figure said to have been guided through the North Star, mystical visions, and her famous motto--"I can't die nevertheless once"--has come to represent many