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Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson — WisdomDeck honest review
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Bound for the Promised Land

by Kate Clifford Larson

The best-researched Tubman biography: her escape, the rescues, the Civil War raid, her long poverty-stricken later life. Separates fact from legend.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Go back for others.
  2. Faith and planning together.
  3. Legends have harder lives than stories tell.

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Read the chapters on the Combahee raid.

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Tubman, documented.

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