Earl Conrad

Earl Conrad ( born December 17, 1912 in Auburn, † 1986 ) was an American author and journalist. Today, he is best known for his 1942 published biography of Harriet Tubman, an African American campaigner against slavery. In addition, he has written more than twenty other books. His biographies include, inter alia, that he has written as a ghostwriter on Errol Flynn.

Scripture Combinatorial activity

The historian Milton C. Sernett believed that Conrad, the Jewish faith was, had set based on their own experiences of discrimination itself the goal to write the first serious biography of Harriet Tubman. Conrad had dealt with the U.S. history and had come to the conclusion that in this, the contribution of the African American population has not been adequately addressed. He drew several African American as a subject of a future biography into consideration and then opted for Harriet Tubman because he thought she was the most fascinating figure and that it was the same that had the least presence in the uS memory.

About Harriet Tubman, who was in 1849 fled from slavery and repeatedly returned to the southern states to eliminate other slaves out of slavery, and which served the northern states, among other things as a scout and spy in the American Civil War, two biographies were already in the 19th century were written. Sarah Bradford was a contemporary of Harriet Tubman and had these two biographies written to help the fallen into financial distress Harriet Tubman. Despite the benevolence of Bradford towards their black fellow citizens these biographies were characterized by a stereotyped idea about African Americans. Unlike Sarah Bradford Earl Conrad Harriet Tubman had never met in person. This had died after birth Conrad in Auburn one year. As Sarah Bradford previously, Earl Conrad tried to verify the details of the unusual life Harriet Tubman. He paid particular attention to the question of how much Harriet Tubman was involved in the women's rights movement. Most of his correspondents were able to teach any evidence. Conrad but decided to anyway, this connection to mention.

Earl Conrad did it very difficult to find a publisher for his biography. The publishers rejected mainly because they were convinced that the biography of a black would apply to no interest in their audience. Earl Conrad therefore published in the forties several articles about Harriet Tubman in order to draw attention to his biography. It was finally a guided blacks publisher who decided to bring out the biography. The book proved to be ultimately as his greatest success and was launched again in small numbers.

Publications

• Typoo
• The Da Vinci Machine
• The Premier
• The Trial of William Freeman
• Scottsboro Boy
• The Philology of Negro Dialect
• Horse Trader
• Gulf Stream North
• Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist (1942 )
• The Invention of the Negro
• Battle New York