
Written by James Buckley Jr. · Illustrated by Izeek Esidene
Part of the Show Me History! series
An enslaved woman escapes to freedom, then risks everything to go back for others.
Harriet Tubman narrates her own life in this comic-format biography. Born into slavery in Maryland, she escaped in 1849, then returned south again and again along the Underground Railroad to lead about seventy people to freedom. She went on to serve as a scout and spy for the Union Army in the Civil War and to fight for women's right to vote, becoming one of America's great heroes.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery, helped dozens make it to freedom, and then became an abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Here's the remarkable life story of an American hero, told in an exciting graphic novel format. Harriet Tubman lived an incredible life, one more heroic than any comic book superhero. In 1849 she escaped slavery for the first time. Then she headed back into the South, helping about 70 slaves find freedom on more than a dozen dangerous journeys along an elaborate abolitionist network called the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Fighter for Freedom! is the latest in the Show Me History! collection, previously featuring the stories of real-life American luminaries such as Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Like the rest of Show Me History!, and befitting her almost unbelievable life, Fighter for Freedom! is presented in full-color, graphic novel format--a long-form comic book.
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