Around 1844 she married a free black named John Tubman and took his last name. (She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that ...
An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in ...
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Do you want to be free? Harriet Tubman and the making of many messiahsIn this and so many other instances, “Do you want to be free?” is an essential question, foregrounded as the result of lives like Harriet Tubman, who also reminds us that when we do liberating ...
She and I continue to the display about Harriet’s husband, John Tubman, a free man she married around 1844. (They had no biological children, but Harriet later adopted a daughter.) In 1851, ...
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