On this edition of Your Call, National Book Award nominee Erica Armstrong Dunbar discusses her new book, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman.
Dunbar presents a fresh take on Tubman, a former enslaved woman who is best known for liberating hundreds of slaves. She was also a fierce suffragist, advocate for the elderly, and the first woman to lead an armed expedition during the Civil War. Dunbar shows how Tubman's fearlessness and activism still resonates today.
Guest:
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Web Resources:
The Guardian: She Came to Slay: Tubman biography looks beyond Underground Railroad
The New Yorker: The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill