Inside Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Black, Feminist Biography of Harriet Tubman

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An interview with Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of the new biography of Harriet Tubman, 'She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman,' on the Black feminist approach that shaped the text and her thoughts on the movie out now.

about the black feminist approach that shaped the text and her thoughts on the movie out now.My work centers on African-American women’s experiences, and more specifically, those experiences of enslaved people. My most recent book prior tolooked at and examined the life of another fugitive, Ona Judge, who ran away from slavery, from first president George Washington.

There was a book that came out in 2008, and before that we had two books, one by Kate Clifford Larson and one by Catherine Clinton, that came out in the early 2000s, so really about 15 years have passed. Both Clinton and Larson do wonderful jobs of excavating Harriet’s life and bringing the details of her life forward.

I think that black women, black scholars, have worked on Tubman for many, many years—but when we think about books or texts that are positioned for a large reading audience, I believe I am the first to do that. What would you say that most of us don’t know about Harriet Tubman that we might learn from the film, or even what we might learn from your book?

Modesty arrives on the eastern shore of Maryland. We’re not exactly sure when, but sometime towards that latter part of the eighteenth century, and it allows me to use Modesty’s journey to talk about the trans-Atlantic slave trade and to connect Harriet directly to an African descendant. Then I’m able to weave in her experiences as a young child, what it meant, sort of thinking about girlhood and slavery.

 

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