Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bauer, Carla
2. Schomburg Children's Collection.

Description

1. 191 p. : ill., map; 19 cm

Summary

1. It's 1863. Harriet Tubman is facing one of the biggest, and most dangerous, challenges of her life. She has survived her master's lash, escaped from slavery, and risked her life countless times to lead runaway slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Now she has a new role-- that of Union spy!

Subject

1. Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913 > Juvenile literature
2. Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
3. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
4. African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature
5. Underground Railroad > Juvenile literature
6. Slaves > United States > Biography
7. African American women > Biography
8. Underground Railroad

Contents

1. Black Moses -- Harriet's escape -- The Underground Railroad -- Slave revolts -- John Brown meets the general -- Trouble at Harpers Ferry -- The "old colored woman" -- Trouble in the capital -- The secret war -- Black dispatches -- Black spies and the Anaconda Plan -- Harriet goes to war -- The general leads a raid -- Telling the secrets.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188) and index.

Author

1. Allen, Thomas B.

Title

1. Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War / Thomas B. Allen ; featuring illustrations by Carla Bauer.

Imprint

1. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only
2. Publisher description
3. Contributor biographical information

Added author

1. Bauer, Carla, illustrator.
2. Schomburg Children's Collection.

LCCN

1. 2005030927

ISBN

1. 0792278895 (hardcover)
2. 9780792278894 (hardcover)
3. 9781426304019 (pbk.)
4. 1426304013 (pbk.)
5. 0792278909 (library binding)
6. 9780792278900 (library binding)

Branch call number

1. B Tubman A