The article examines Sarah Bradford's book “Harriet, the Moses of Her People” from the perspective of racial and gender representation. The difference between the book about Tubman's life and the slave narrative is expressed in the change in its main goal: not to awaken opposition to slavery and create a negative public opinion towards it, but to include the activities of the black people in the history of the fight against slavery. The discourse of freedom characteristic of African-American and women's narratives is vividly embodied in the image of Tubman. The main motives of the desire for independence, finding one’s own “Self” and freedom united two agendas of American society of that time — the racial problem, which only worsened in the South after the Civil War, and the feminist one, also associated with the rise of the struggle for equal rights of all American women. The book reflects the emerging specificity of the female narrative in the 19th century as a whole, with its attention to women’s fate and the formation of a new female character, istinguished by independence, and the consolidation in this narrative of the image of a strong black woman, going beyond the legalized position of a representative of the “inferior sex and inferior race”, in particular.
For citation: Morozova I.V. Race and Gender problem in The Narration of Harriet Tubman life in “Harriet, the Moses of Her People” by S. Bradford, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2024, iss. 1, pp. 50—58.