![]() ![]() ![]() The author doesn't gloss over the brutalities and continues to use the hangman for comic relief. ![]() Imagine being on the run with slave-catchers and dogs hunting you, and your guide or abductor falls asleep in the middle of it! Yet, Harriet was one of the most successful abductors and when she did nod off she'd wake up and tell people she had a vision from God and usually it was a warning that danger was ahead. The injury left her with narcolepsy, a disease where she nods off to sleep. Speaking of messed up neurons, zappings, and lightning, Harriet was a bit scrambled in her brains too after an angry overseer accidentally fast-pitched several pounds of lead into her skull while she was protecting another black man. Wherever your lightning bolts zap, make sure they hit this winner. Toss in a 20 hour door-to-door trip with a 12 hour time gain and my brain responds like a zapped zapata. black woman on cover with the word, "underground." Duh. ![]() I didn't even realize this book was about Harriet Tubman. How the heck he takes grizzly information and makes it entertaining is the work of an author that knows his craft. This guy just nails 'em every time infusing humor with his own creative juices to create a fictional account of history that is loaded with accurate facts. I can't recall a graphic novel series where I've read five books and given them all four or five stars. ![]()
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