Beverly Lowry: "Harriet Tubman" (Doubleday)

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Guest Host:

Steve Roberts
Beverly Lowry: "Harriet Tubman" (Doubleday)

Many know Harriet Tubman as a leader of the Underground Railroad. But she was more than a leader of slaves to freedom. She was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook and intelligence officer...

Many know Harriet Tubman as a leader of the Underground Railroad. But she was more than a leader of slaves to freedom. She was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook and intelligence officer. Guest host Steve Roberts talks with the author of a new biography on the life of Harriet Tubman.

Guests

Beverly Lowry

author of six novels and the nonfiction works "Crossed Over" and "Her Dream of Dreams."

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