| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. By Catherine Clinton. (New York: Little, Brown, 2004. xiv, 272 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-316-14492-4.)
Harriet Tubman is an American cultural icon memorialized by the numerous schools, streets, parks, and domestic shelters bearing her name. Yet historians have neglected her. Part of the neglect arises from Tubman herself and the nature of her accomplishments. Illiterate, she generated few of the primary sources upon which historians usually rely. Contemporary documentation of her greatest work—as a conductor in the Underground Railroad and as a U.S. spy during the Civil War—is scanty. Necessity mandated that Tubman observe a code of silence regarding these activities.	1
In crafting Harriet Tubman, Catherine Clinton relies upon modern scholarship, oral traditions, and conflicting nineteenth-century primary sources. Remarkably, hers is practically the first scholarly biography of this exceptional life (Ballantine Books released Kate Clifford Larson's Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero a few weeks before Clinton's Harriet Tubman).	. . .

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