Audiences get dramatic escape sequences and emotional monologues about liberty, but never a nuanced portrayal of the material skills Harriet Tubman yielded to be a skilled abolitionist.
, the scholar lists some of the longstanding myths about enslaved Black women as “... cruel, negligent as a mother, fickle as a wife, passive, downtrodden, had no moral codes, no single connection with the other sex, subservient, and a resigned slave who contributed little to the cause of slave resistance.” Tubman’s real-life denial of these stereotypes and myths are important for the sake of showing a powerful Black woman on-screen — but the film fails to deliver.
Audiences get dramatic escape sequences and emotional monologues about liberty, but never a nuanced portrayal of the material skills Tubman yielded to be a skilled abolitionist.
, the ingenuity required to feed other Black as they fleed, and the survival skills learned from her father while in the wild.— because it is the first feature-length film to depict the life of Harriet Tubman in a time that many consider being
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