THE TUBMAN COMMAND engages readers with believable fiction surrounding an amazing and mighty historical figure. Harriet Tubman comes alive as we join in both her ordinary daily conflicted feelings and emotions as she bakes gingerbread,
then confronts the dangerous challenges of a Union spy.
Epigrams from historical documents open each new chapter and set the pace for Tubman's choices as the author imagines them. Elizabeth Cobbs does not shy away
from possible criticism of yet another white writer taking on a black person's story.
This book will stand that test if readers recognize that they cannot tell the race of the author by reading her words and perspective.
Learning about this little known and absolutely astonishing rescue of enslaved people from plantations up the Combahee River by 300 "colored troops" led by white Colonel James Montgomery ranks with Sherman's March to the Sea!
then confronts the dangerous challenges of a Union spy.
Epigrams from historical documents open each new chapter and set the pace for Tubman's choices as the author imagines them. Elizabeth Cobbs does not shy away
from possible criticism of yet another white writer taking on a black person's story.
This book will stand that test if readers recognize that they cannot tell the race of the author by reading her words and perspective.
Learning about this little known and absolutely astonishing rescue of enslaved people from plantations up the Combahee River by 300 "colored troops" led by white Colonel James Montgomery ranks with Sherman's March to the Sea!