Tina Miles, a National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, acknowledges in her fascinating new book Night Flyer, Harriet Tubman is the subject of several excellent modern biographies, most notably  by Kate Clifford Larson and Catherine Clinton. Tubman’s first official “as told to” biography was published as early as 1869 and was written by Sarah Bradford, one of several white abolitionist women who supported Tubman in her work. Tina Miles explains intimately and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harry Tubman, five feet tall, unable to read, … Continue reading Wilderness to Freedom