Biography harriet history jailbreak re tubman

Synopsis

In Jailbreak Out of History revolutionary Amazon theorist Butch Lee shows how the anticolonial struggles of New Afrikan/Black women were central to the unfolding of 19th century amerika, both during and "after" slavery.

The book's title essay, "The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman", recounts the life and politics of Harriet Tubman, who waged and eventually led the war against the capitalist slave system.

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As Lee explains, "Harriet Tubman was a radical political figure, someone totally involved as a player in the great political ideas and military storms of her day. She was a guerrilla. Someone who lived and taught others to live by the communal and working-class New Afrikan culture that her people had planted in this difficult ground, and a Black Feminist to the end." At the same time, Lee exposes how the white supremacist patriarchy has distorted the truth o