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Author Allen, Thomas B.

Title Harriet Tubman, secret agent : how daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War / written by Thomas B. Allen ; with illustrations by Carla Bauer.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2006.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1228194~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO TUBMAN    SPECIAL HOLD
 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Biography  J BIO TUBMAN    AVAILABLE
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Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary Thomas B. Allen digs back through historical records to present a famous historical figure in a new light. Readers discover that Harriet Tubman--well-known to them as an ex-slave who led hundreds of her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad--was also a spy for the Union Army.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue : Black Moses -- Harriet's escape -- The underground railroad -- Slave revolts --John Brown meets the general -- Trouble in Harpers Ferry -- The "Old Colored Woman" -- Trouble at the Capital -- The secret war -- Black dispatches -- Black spies and the Anaconda plan -- Harriet goes to war -- The General leads a raid -- Epilogue : telling the secrets.
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 8.0 4 109699
Note Accelerated Reader MG 8.0 4 109699
Subject Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913 -- Juvenile literature.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Underground Railroad -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
Added Author Bauer, Carla, ill.
ISBN 0792278895
0792278909
9780792278894
9780792278900
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