Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature by Caroline Brewer Jack Underwood The themes are often dark

The themes are often dark

‘Unafraid of sentiment

as he called them)

Heinrich Heine’s long poem on returning to Germany for the first time after thirteen years in Parisian exile

twelve years old and newly orphaned

Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature by Caroline Brewer Jack Underwood The themes are often darkWhen Harriet Tubman was born enslaved in Maryland, USA, in 1822, nobody knew this tiny Black child would be so rooted in the natural world. Nobody knew she would find her way by the stars or move through the woods as silently as an owl or hear God speaking to her in trances. Nobody knew that she would use her oneness with the environment and spirit to escape the brutality that was slavery, rescue hundreds of others from the same fate, and embrace the