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I am at peace with God and all mankind. Harriet Tubman to Mary Talbert, on the occasion of their last visit, 1913Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman the Moses of Her People. During her lifetime Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. She was known both as Moses and as General Tubman. In Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, Beverly Lowry goes beyond the familiar tales to create a portrait of Tubman in lively imagined vignettes that, as Lowry writes, catch her on the fly and portray her life as she herself might have presented it. Lowry offers readers an intimate look at Tubman s early life firsthand: her birth as Araminta Ross in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland; the harsh treatment she experienced growing up including being struck with a two-pound iron when she was twelve years old; and her triumphant escape from slavery as a young woman and rebirth as Harriet Tubman. We travel with Tubman along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad and hear of her friendships with Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and other abolitionists. We accompany her to the battlefields of the Civil War, where she worked as a nurse and a cook and earned the name General Tubman, join her on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, and share her horror and sorrow as she witnesses the massacre of Colonel Shaw and the black soldiers of the 54th Regiment at Fort Wagner. Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a stunningly rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings Tubman to life as never before.With 62 photographs, illustrations, and maps

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Between the details she gleaned from historical sources and her obvious affection and respect for her subject, Lowry delivers a richly imagined biography of a woman who risked her life repeatedly to free slaves and to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. <br>--Vanessa Bush, Booklist <br> Tubman's life invites imagining, and Lowry's reader-friendly book...presents her story with a novelist's sense of pace, suspense, and speculation. <br>-- Publishers Weekly <p> Beverly Lowry's brilliantly imaginative account of Harriet Tubman's incredible life is a <br>valuable addition to the literature of American heroism--of African American and <br>female American heroism in particular. Binding a novelist's vision of a lost, mostly <br>unrecorded world with the discipline and scholarship of a first rate historian, Lowry has <br>written more than a mere biography. <br>--Russell Banks, bestselling author of The Cloudsplitter and The Sweet Hereafter

Between the details she gleaned from historical sources and her obvious affection and respect for her subject, Lowry delivers a richly imagined biography of a woman who risked her life repeatedly to free slaves and to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. <br>--Vanessa Bush, Booklist <br><br> Tubman's life invites imagining, and Lowry's reader-friendly book...presents her story with a novelist's sense of pace, suspense, and speculation. <br>-- Publishers Weekly <br><br> Beverly Lowry's brilliantly imaginative account of Harriet Tubman's incredible life is a <br><br>valuable addition to the literature of American heroism--of African American and <br><br>female American heroism in particular. Binding a novelist's vision of a lost, mostly <br><br>unrecorded world with the discipline and scholarship of a first rate historian, Lowry has <br><br>written more than a mere biography. <br>--Russell Banks, bestselling author of The Cloudsplitter and The Sweet Hereafter

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BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and the nonfiction works Crossed Over and Her Dream of Dreams. The recipient of the 2007 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, Lowry teaches at George Mason University. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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