A Woman Called Moses
A Woman Called Moses ★★½ 1978
The story of Harriet Ross Tubman, who bought her freedom from slavery, founded the underground railroad, and helped lead hundreds of slaves to freedom before the Civil War. Wonderful performance by Tyson but the telefilm is bogged down by a so-so script. Based on the novel by Marcy Heldish. 200m/C VHS, DVD . Cicely Tyson, Dick Anthony Williams, Will Geer, Robert Hooks, Hari Rhodes, James Wainwright; D: Paul Wendkos; W: Lonnie Elder III; M: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. TV
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Tolbert County, Maryland
Washington, D.C.
Abolitionist, writer, and speaker
Escaped from slavery to become one of the most
promin… Harriet Tubman , Tubman, Harriet 1820(?)–1913
Abolitionist, social reformer
In 1869, the famous ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote to Harriet Tubman,… Antislavery , Opposition to slavery in British North America began in the late seventeenth century but was limited mostly to a minority of Quakers and a few Purita… Slavery , Slavery
Slavery is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel… Theodore Dwight Weld , Hampton, Connecticut
Died February 3, 1895
Boston, Massachusetts
Religious leader and abolitionist
Author of the influential book
American Slavery as… Beloved , Beloved
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