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 ...

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 ... themselves to the world as the enlightened enslavers. Not so, says historian Kate Clifford Larson, author of the 2003 Tubman ...