Reviews

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton

prettypious's review against another edition

5.0

I learned so much about Harriet Tubman that I didn’t know and this is like the third Harriet Tubman book I’ve read (unfortunately the literature is still way to dearth on this saint). It of course made me want to learn more about her and her life. I continue to be awed and amazed by her and disappointed at the reverence her peers get for talking about abolition verses the reverence and support for her legacy that she gets having actually oh I don’t actually personally helped others break their chains. Oh yeah and the more I learn of John Tubman the more I dislike him and his death was an example of poetic justice. He got just what he asked for.

jevans2980's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

rihana34's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

jei_alexander's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

suebrownreads's review against another edition

3.0

I listened to this book on Audible. I liked learning some things that I didn't know about Harriet Tubman/ This book reads like a textbook except there are a lot of "perhaps" and "maybes." The reader also reads it like a textbook with very little inflection. Sometimes it is hard to tell when a quote begins or ends. The book and the reader does improve somewhat about halfway through.

megs_k's review against another edition

5.0

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ~ Harriet Tubman via Catherine Clinton

ryan_oneil's review against another edition

5.0

This book does a great job of telling the story of Harriet Tubman's life and also placing that life into the context of American history. Also, it forcefully destroys any notion that there was anything positive about slavery.

Another thing the book does very well is highlight just how erased the lives of slaves were. It's unclear, for example, when Harriet Tubman was born because there are no records.

The book is well written and exceedingly well researched.

lisa_whitfield's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

meganstreb's review against another edition

5.0

I really enjoyed this. Quite a bit of speculation, but lots of explanation to tell you why research is hard to do on many African-Americans at that time. Lots of detail around the wider picture -- of key abolitionists, key African-American figures, changes in laws around slavery and Fugitives, etc.

marie_gg's review against another edition

4.0

As a child, she was my hero. Apparently biographies of her are rare. Fascinating glimpse into the life of an amazing woman!