the life and the life stories
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Humez, Jean M.
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4644 - B
- Thesaurus
- levensgeschiedenissen, heldinnen, receptie, slavernij, vrouwenbewegingen, zwarte vrouwenbewegingen, Verenigde Staten, autobiografie, 19e eeuw, 1900-1909, 1910-1919
- Description
- Autobiography of Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913). Born in slavery, she drew upon spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped slavery and later succesfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. Celebrated by her primarily white antislavery associates in a variety of private and public documents from 1850s through the 1870s, she was rediscovered as a race heroine by woman suffragists and the African American women's movement in the early twentieth century. Her story was used as a key symbolic resource in education, institutional fundraising, and debates about the meaning of 'race' throughout the twentieth century. Humez discusses Tubman's work as a public performer of her own life history. Drawing upon historiographical and literary discussion of the complex hybrid authorship of slave narrative literature, Humez analyses the interactive dynamic between Tubman and her interviewers. Selections of Tubman's stories and key period documents illustrate how she appeared to her contemporaries