Why does Harriet Tubman matter so much? Because she represents ideals that Americans hold dear, ideals that many people all over the world yearn for — freedom, equality, justice and self-determination ...

Catherine Clinton’s Harriet Tubman and Kate Clifford Larson’s Bound for the Promised Land. Since then there have been ...

according to Kate Clifford Larson, author of “Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.” ...

Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great ... Maryland slave-owners liked to point that out and present themselves to the world as the enlightened enslavers ...