“The Tubman Command” by
Elizabeth Cobbs
c.2019, Brilliance Audio
$34.99 / $51.99 Canada
10 discs, 12+ hours
c.2019, Arcade
$25.99 / $34.99 Canada
327 pages
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
You are the Big Kahuna.
The Boss, the One in Charge,
maker of decisions and teller
of things to do. You’re the Big
Cheese with all the responsibility
and you ain’t bad at it. So
how would you do if, as in the
novel, “The Tubman Command”
by Elizabeth Cobbs, the very lives
of soldiers, women, and children
were in your hands?
On so many mornings, Harriet
Tubman woke with the lingering
feeling of her husband,
John, lying next to her.
That hadn’t happened in 15
years, though, not since she left
him and joined the Underground
Railroad. She wasn’t entirely sure
where he was but she knew he’d
barely recognize her. So much
had changed since then.
All that was just useless
thought for another day; there
were more important things in
front of Harriet. She was thinking
of her meeting with General
David Hunter of the Union, and
how he was going to help her free
a thousand slaves.
Just gaining the respect of
the soldiers was going to be a
challenge.
Most folk thought that the
person they called Moses was
a man. Nobody ever thought a
small woman could be so brave
as to snatch slaves from beneath
their owner’s noses, but there
she was. And she was working
on a plan that would boost the
morale of the men, and show the
Confederacy that the imposing
position of Fort Sumter was no
obstacle for the Union.
It was a mission that needed
care. Every slave on the plantations
around the Combahee
River knew there were Confederate
explosives buried in the Combahee’s
silt. At least one slave
knew where they were; Harriet
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had to find him and learn what
he knew, but he was on the notorious
Lownes plantation. She’d
need to go there and get out without
the overseer, Pipkin, spotting
her. She’d have to help General
Hunter find enough men to keep
Charleston under control, too,
so she’d need to convince more
Black men to join the cause.
Folks didn’t think black soldiers
could fight. They didn’t think a
“puny” woman could lead people
to freedom, either, but they had
seriously miscalculated…
It’s easy to place our heroes on
a pedestal. We do it all the time,
but “The Tubman Command”
tips perch a bit.
No, you won’t think lesser
of Harriet Tubman after you’ve
heard this audiobook. Instead,
you’ll see that “fierce” is too
small a word for Tubman’s personality
and her heroism — she
repeatedly walked back into a
plantation, after all — although
author Elizabeth Cobbs reminds
readers in so many ways that
Tubman was still a woman, probably
a mother, absolutely able to
Book cover of “The Tubman Command” by Elizabeth
Cobbs.
fall in love. This is subtly done
with slight liberties taken in her
plot aspects, as Cobbs explains in
her author’s note.
That’s not a distraction. It,
and the performance by Heidi
Franklin, enhances a tale that
will thrill you and make you
scream “Nooooo!” “The Tubman
Command” is perfect for Civil
War buffs, novel lovers, and anyone
who wants a big story.
Harriet ‘Moses’ Tubman
leads her people to freedom
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