Harriet Tubman Day at the David C. Driskell Center honored the legacy of Tubman and other freedom seekers on Monday.
"She says, 'But your Aunt Harriet was not the kind of villain that they make her out,'" Daniels recalls ... “Harriet Tubman is like a stage name for me,” she said. “That’s not who she ...
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was ... “I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once told an interviewer.
she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away. She set ...
Harriet Tubman has been known by her many names and roles—Araminta Ross (her birth name ... National Museum of African American History and Culture Albumen print of Harriet Tubman ...
Now, Harriet Tubman ... name. I honor the stories that I have heard. And I thank God that I have lived long enough to see this.” Once I’m able to pry Manokey away from her admirers, Ross helps ...
Born 200 years ago in Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a Civil War scout, nurse and spy, and one of the greatest freedom fighters in our nation’s history.