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...WOMAN CALLED MOSES by MARCY HEIDISH 308 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...Marcy Heidish's fictionalized narrative, the heroine recounts her role as hope to the "bondfolk" of the South, terror to plantation owners (the reward for her capture rose to $40,000) and major figure in the abolition and women's suffrage movements. Harriet Tubman, a short, muscular woman, was born into slavery around 1820 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. At 15, she suffered a severe head injury when an overseer threw an iron weight at her. The blow left Harriet with permanent brain damage; for the remainder of her life, she would suffer periods of unconsciousness...
...suffered no such lapses of responsibility. After fleeing to free territory, she organized 19 forays into the South, bringing out 300 men, women and children. But she continued to worry about the unreachable. In Heidish's stream of conscience, Tubman murmurs: "I began to dream continually on numbers . . . Three million the abolitionists said there were; that figure loomed large in my brain, nearly blotting the others out. I was unable to picture what a million or two or three million looked like, so I dreamed instead of fingers, counting them, fingers spread, pointing, webbing together, locking at the knuckles...
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