Table of Contents
Prologue xv
Part 1 Provocations (1821-1852)
1 A Nantucket Inheritance (1833-1843) 3
2 A Young Lady of Means (1824-1837) 19
3 Escape from Maryland (1822-1849) 37
4 The Freeman Trial (1846) 47
5 Dangerous Women (1848-1849) 55
6 Frances Goes to Washington (1848-1850) 65
7 Martha Speaks (1850-1852) 79
Part 2 Uprisings (1851-1860)
8 Frances Joins the Railroad (1851-1852) 89
9 Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852-1853) 99
10 Harriet Tubman's Maryland Crusade (1851-1857) 109
11 The Race to the Territory (1854) 115
12 Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner (1854-1856) 121
13 Frances Sells Harriet a House (1857-1859) 129
14 Martha Leads (1854-1860) 141
15 General Tubman Goes to Boston (1858-1860) 149
16 The Agitators (1860) 159
Part 3 War (1861-1864)
17 "No Compromise" (1861) 169
18 A Nation on Fire (1861-1862) 183
19 "God's Ahead of Master Lincoln" (1862) 193
20 Battle Hymns (1862) 201
21 Harriet's War (1863) 215
22 Willy Wright at Gettysburg (March-July 1863) 231
23 A Mighty Army of Women (1863-1864) 239
24 Daughters and Sons (1864) 247
Part 4 Rights (1864-1875)
25 E Pluribus Unum (1864-1865) 263
26 Retribution (1865) 269
27 Civil Disobedience (1865) 283
28 Wrongs and Rights (1865-1875) 289
Epilogue 303
Acknowledgments 309
Notes 313
Selected Bibliography 353
Image Credits 359
Index 361