The life of the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman is a testament to the fact that with hard sacrifices, African American women could overcome sincere restraints. Even in her most dire moments of poverty and illness, and even when faced with shameful discrimination, Tubman continued to give what little she had to others. Although Tubman attributed much of her success to prayer, she also believed firmly in, “the individual’s ability to seize her own destiny.” Certianly, Catherine Clinton’s book is a excellent comtribution to the growing African-American historiography that includes the illumination of abolitionist, escaped slave, Union spy and lover of humankind, Harriet Tubman.
