Up from the underground

Long relegated to children's books, the story of Harriet Tubman comes of age in three biographies

By David Mehegan

Globe Staff / February 5, 2004

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The Harriet Tubman statue in Boston's South End, near the corner of Columbus Avenue and Pembroke Street, is about 8 feet tall, about 3 feet taller than the real Tubman. The scale is fitting, since the great conductor on the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad was truly a monumental figure. And yet, strange as it sounds, Tubman is only now, for ... (Full Article: 1738 Words)