A Woman Called Moses - washingtonpost.com: "The legendary exploits of a heroine who went from bondage to bravery.
Reviewed by Fergus M. Bordewich
HARRIET TUBMAN
Imagining a Life By Beverly Lowry
It's no wonder that we continue to be mesmerized by Harriet Tubman, this brilliant, bold, coarse-grained former field hand who brazenly defied 19th-century assumptions about what women -- especially black women -- were supposed to be. Although a latecomer to the Underground Railroad, she has become the paramount icon of the entire far-flung system, which spirited fugitive slaves northward in the decades before the Civil War.
