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retro- pref. repr. L.
retrō- adv. (‘behind’) used in combination as in
retrospicere (cf.
RETROSPECT),
retrogradus (see next), f.
RE- + compar. suffix as in
intrō- INTRO-; in anat. and path. denoting ‘situated behind’ the part of the body indicated by the second el., as
retro-ocular,
-uterine.
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VIEWS ON HARRIET TUBMAN GIVEN AT DEDICATION.(Neighbors Cayuga)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 6/17/2004; 700+ words
; ...Thorton Avenue after Harriet Tubman. The dedication...can see, Harriet Tubman was a great role...through my life. Harriet Tubman showed me...memorialize Ms. Tubman. The building that...home in Auburn. Harriet Tubman was a remarkable...
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Sen. Cardin Introduces Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/7/2008; 700+ words
; ...Cardin, D-Maryland, has introduced the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical...legislation that would "establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn...
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Rep. Arcuri Introduces Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...Arcuri, D-New York, has introduced the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical...legislation that would "establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn...
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.(Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories)(Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom...0-316-14492-4.) Harriet Tubman: The Life and the...task of chronicling Harriet Tubman's life without the benefit...possible to reconstruct Harriet Tubman's life. These...
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom/Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories/Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom...0-316-14492-4.) Harriet Tubman: The Life and the...task of chronicling Harriet Tubman's life without the benefit...possible to reconstruct Harriet Tubman's life. These...
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$284,000 to Restore Harriet Tubman Home
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 3/28/2001; 700+ words
; ...28-2001 $284,000 TO RESTORE HARRIET TUBMAN HOME Governor George E. Pataki...than $284,000 to restore the Harriet Tubman Home and develop the historic...has proclaimed March 10,2001 Harriet Tubman Day in New York state in...
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Harriet Tubman, pre-mummification.(Flashback: To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child--Cicero)(Biography)
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...later known as Harriet Tubman, is perhaps the...Aunt Harriet" Tubman. His great aunt...modest demurral, Harriet "would clap her...Adams transcribed Tubman's remarks in her...front yard of the Harriet Tubman Home, which...
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Harriet Tubman: The Lives of a Historical Fugitive
Magazine article from: The Crisis; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Harriet Tubman: The Lives of a Historical Fugitive Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom By Catherine Clinton (Little, Brown, $27.95) Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero By Kate Clifford...
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Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories/Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Mosses" Myths Two new biographies examine who Harriet Tubman really was Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean...November 2003 $45.00, ISBN 0-299-19120-6 Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton...
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Newspaper article from: Atlanta Inquirer; 2/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...02-07-2004 Who was Harriet Tubman? To John Brown, the...and helps us imagine Tubman maturing within it...reads like a novel. Harriet Tubman could not have...winning historian "At last Harriet Tubman, the great American...
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Tubman, Harriet 1820(?)–1913
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
Harriet Tubman 1820(?)–1913...Frederick Douglass wrote to Harriet Tubman, another ex-slave...and nursing children. Tubman eventually came to prefer...later changed first name to Harriet; died of pneumonia March...
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Tubman, Harriet
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Tubman, Harriet 1822 – 1913 Born Araminta “ Minty...Thompson, in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822, Harriet Tubman was one of nine enslaved children of Harriet “ Rit ” Green and Benjamin Ross...
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Harriet Ross Tubman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Harriet Ross Tubman Harriet Ross Tubman (ca. 1820-1913) was a black American who, as an...captivity. Born in Dorchester County, Md., in the early 1820s, Harriet Ross was a slave child who suffered the usual hardships of black children...
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Harriet Tubman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Harriet Tubman c.1820-1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born...certainly confided his Harpers Ferry plan to her. During the Civil War, Tubman attached herself to the Union forces in coastal South Carolina, serving...
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Lawrence, Jacob 1917–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Intellectuals L’Ouverture, Tubman, and Douglass Wartime Inspiration...abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Major retrospectives of his works...American abolitionist] John Brown, Harriet Tubman—are presented...
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