handful_of_frogs's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.25
jackelz's review against another edition
5.0
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom by Whit Taylor and Kazimir Lee is an illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman that sheds a new light on one of American history's bravest heroes.
Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent about thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people, and women's suffrage.
This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society. It is a perfect anti-racist narrative for our times and deepens an understanding of just what freedom means to those who must fight for it.
I thankfully learned about Harriet Tubman in school and in readings since, but I still learned something new reading this. I had no idea that she suffered a traumatic head injury and was afflicted with seizures, chronic headaches, and even bouts of narcolepsy. She suffered so much at the hands of slave owners and racism, and she was still a light to so many.
Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent about thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people, and women's suffrage.
This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society. It is a perfect anti-racist narrative for our times and deepens an understanding of just what freedom means to those who must fight for it.
I thankfully learned about Harriet Tubman in school and in readings since, but I still learned something new reading this. I had no idea that she suffered a traumatic head injury and was afflicted with seizures, chronic headaches, and even bouts of narcolepsy. She suffered so much at the hands of slave owners and racism, and she was still a light to so many.
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