Guest Speaker: Dr. Tiya Miles, author Night Flyer - Harriet Tubman & Faith Dreams of a Free People
Schedule
Sun Nov 17 2024 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
120 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor, MI
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Harvard professor (and former UofM professor/FUMC member) speaks about her newest book, a revelatory and intimate reckoning with the myth and truth behind Harriet Tubman. from Dr. Miles website:
Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero–the woman who, despite being barely five feet tall, illiterate, and suffering from a brain injury, managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some 750 people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood.
Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world.
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Where is it happening?
120 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104Event Location & Nearby Stays:
