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(0)Kate Clifford Larson
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xix, 263 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of Mary Surratt, a shadowy figure behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--and the first woman executed by the federal government. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house in Washington where the conspirators, including her rebel son, John Surratt, met to plan the assassination. When a military tribunal convicted her for her crimes and sentenced her to death, five of the nine commissioners petitioned President...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history-a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes. Now at last, historian...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America--the right to cast a ballot--in...