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Harriet Tubman The Moses of Her People by Sarah Bradford

.... notes that Tubman made superhuman efforts not only in escaping from slavery but by returning to the South no less nineteen times to guide over three hundred other escaped slaves to freedom in Canada, as well as acting as a Union spy and a nurse during the Civil War.
Bradford narrates Tubmans story from when Tubman was a child, including the blow Tubman received as a young woman at the hands of a cruel overseer, some of Tubmans adventures grappling with the bitter environmental conditions of her escape, narrowly evading capture at every turn, and Tubmans religious faith. But Bradford was a white woman very much of her time in terms of her attitudes towards race, and occasionally in her zeal to stress Tubmans unique capabilities, she seems to unintentionally fall into the trap of stereotyping Tubmans fellow slaves. This is bitterly ironic, given that Tubman still strove to uplift her people. Consider this comment about the young Tubman, recovering after the blow she sustained to her head: The sun shone on, and Harriet still slept seated on the fence rail. They, those others, had no anxious dreams of the future, and even the occasional sufferings of the present