Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Jean Marie Wiesen · Rita Daniels
Feb 2025 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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A revolutionary portrait of Harriet Tubman—told with the voice of history and the authority of family.
Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history. Yet much of her true story has remained fragmented, misunderstood, or deliberately incomplete. While countless books recount her courage on the Underground Railroad, none have fully explored the breadth of her strategic brilliance, her documented role as a Union Army scout and spy, or the African ancestry that shaped her extraordinary character.
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary sets out to correct the record — permanently.
Drawing on rare oral history passed through generations of the Tubman family — made possible through Rita Daniels, Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece — alongside deep archival research, Wiesen restores depth, truth, and humanity to a story that history has long fragmented for political convenience.
Inside, readers will discover:
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as a biography that 'sheds light on Tubman's contributions to the Union Army and her later activism,' and by Kirkus Reviews for granting 'authoritative history and authentic humanity,' this is the definitive modern account of one of history's most consequential leaders.
Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history. Yet much of her true story has remained fragmented, misunderstood, or deliberately incomplete. While countless books recount her courage on the Underground Railroad, none have fully explored the breadth of her strategic brilliance, her documented role as a Union Army scout and spy, or the African ancestry that shaped her extraordinary character.
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary sets out to correct the record — permanently.
Drawing on rare oral history passed through generations of the Tubman family — made possible through Rita Daniels, Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece — alongside deep archival research, Wiesen restores depth, truth, and humanity to a story that history has long fragmented for political convenience.
Inside, readers will discover:
- How a childhood head injury silenced Tubman in early biographical interviews — and why the omissions persisted for over a century
- The full scope of her ancestral roots in Ghana among the Ashanti people — the heritage that forged her strength
- Her documented role as a Union Army scout, spy, and military strategist — arguably the most underrepresented chapter of her life
- Her tireless postwar activism: as a suffragist, community organizer, and founder of the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged
- A fully corrected biographical narrative, informed by family oral history and newly examined archival evidence
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as a biography that 'sheds light on Tubman's contributions to the Union Army and her later activism,' and by Kirkus Reviews for granting 'authoritative history and authentic humanity,' this is the definitive modern account of one of history's most consequential leaders.
A revolutionary portrait of Harriet Tubman—told with the voice of history and the authority of family.
Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history. Yet much of her true story has remained fragmented, misunderstood, or deliberately incomplete. While countless books recou...
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About the author
Jean Marie Wiesen is an investigative author and researcher whose work is defined by meticulous primary source methodology, rigorous historical reconstruction, and a commitment to recovering what previous accounts have missed.
Her most significant work, Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary, represents years of deep archival research into military records, Civil War documentation, and first-hand historical sources — producing the most complete and accurate biography of Harriet Tubman ever written. Working alongside Rita Daniels, whose Tubman family background provided access to generations of oral history, Wiesen developed a research framework that uncovered the full scope of Tubman's role as a Union Army scout, spy, and military strategist; traced her ancestral roots to Ghana among the Ashanti people; and corrected long-standing historical omissions that had persisted for over a century.
The book has drawn praise from The New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and members of the United States Senate.
Wiesen attended Art Center College of Design in Southern California, majoring in Still Photography and minoring in Creative Writing. She further developed her craft under the mentorship of British author Robert Pollock. She is also the author of Case of the Missing Look Alikes and Case of the Mouse Trap Legend.
Rita Daniels is the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman and one of the primary stewards of her family's living oral history. Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary is the first Tubman biography to draw on direct family memory since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.
The stories Rita Daniels brings to this work — passed through generations of the Tubman family — illuminate Harriet Tubman in ways the archival record alone cannot. Her contribution gave this biography access to a category of historical truth unavailable to any other researcher.
Rita Daniels is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center (HTLC) in Powder Springs, Georgia, dedicated to the education of underserved children. She holds a Master's Degree in Education and a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources (Cum Laude) from Trident University International.
Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely is one of America's most distinguished community leaders, educators, and international advocates for youth empowerment, women's advancement, and social equity.
Appointed Community Mayor of Harlem by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and named Goodwill Ambassador to Africa in 2009, she brings to the foreword of this biography a perspective shaped by decades of frontline community leadership in the living tradition of Harriet Tubman.
Dr. Blakely holds Master of Education degrees from Harvard University, Teachers College, and Columbia University, and a Doctorate of Education from Teachers College. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Community Fellow at MIT, and an Education Policy Fellow with the International Education Leadership program.
Her most significant work, Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary, represents years of deep archival research into military records, Civil War documentation, and first-hand historical sources — producing the most complete and accurate biography of Harriet Tubman ever written. Working alongside Rita Daniels, whose Tubman family background provided access to generations of oral history, Wiesen developed a research framework that uncovered the full scope of Tubman's role as a Union Army scout, spy, and military strategist; traced her ancestral roots to Ghana among the Ashanti people; and corrected long-standing historical omissions that had persisted for over a century.
The book has drawn praise from The New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and members of the United States Senate.
Wiesen attended Art Center College of Design in Southern California, majoring in Still Photography and minoring in Creative Writing. She further developed her craft under the mentorship of British author Robert Pollock. She is also the author of Case of the Missing Look Alikes and Case of the Mouse Trap Legend.
Rita Daniels is the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman and one of the primary stewards of her family's living oral history. Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary is the first Tubman biography to draw on direct family memory since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.
The stories Rita Daniels brings to this work — passed through generations of the Tubman family — illuminate Harriet Tubman in ways the archival record alone cannot. Her contribution gave this biography access to a category of historical truth unavailable to any other researcher.
Rita Daniels is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center (HTLC) in Powder Springs, Georgia, dedicated to the education of underserved children. She holds a Master's Degree in Education and a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources (Cum Laude) from Trident University International.
Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely is one of America's most distinguished community leaders, educators, and international advocates for youth empowerment, women's advancement, and social equity.
Appointed Community Mayor of Harlem by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and named Goodwill Ambassador to Africa in 2009, she brings to the foreword of this biography a perspective shaped by decades of frontline community leadership in the living tradition of Harriet Tubman.
Dr. Blakely holds Master of Education degrees from Harvard University, Teachers College, and Columbia University, and a Doctorate of Education from Teachers College. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Community Fellow at MIT, and an Education Policy Fellow with the International Education Leadership program.
Jean Marie Wiesen is an investigative author and researcher whose work is defined by meticulous primary source methodology, rigorous historical reconstruction, and a commitment to recovering what previous accounts have missed.
Her most significant work, Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacio...
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