The True Story of Harriet Tubman, the Black Moses

2024-03-11T15:13:36.431Z

Highlights: The True Story of Harriet Tubman, the Black Moses. Stéphane Bern recounts a major figure of abolitionism in the United States. How did she help dozens of slaves escape? What is the “Underground Railroad”? What response did Harriet Tub man's memoirs receive when they were published in the second part of the 19th century? To talk about it, Sté phane Bern receives Antoine Guégan, historian, specialist in the representation of slavery in cinema.

Stéphane Bern recounts a major figure of abolitionism in the United States which celebrates her every year on the occasion of Harriet Tubman Day (March 10), a slave who helped many others, like her, to escape, to flee their conditions to simply live. Or the true story of Harriet Tubman, Black Moses... How did she help dozens of slaves escape? What is the “Underground Railroad”? What response did Harriet Tubman's memoirs receive when they were published in the second part of the 19th century? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Antoine Guégan, historian, specialist in the representation of slavery in cinema.