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The city of Auburn, N.Y., has a variety of attractions illuminating Harriet Tubman’s life after the Underground Railroad, and this year it is celebrating the bicentennial of her birth with a series of special events expected to last through September.
Harriet Tubman was born on a Dorchester, Maryland, plantation sometime during March 1822 and died March 10, 1913, at her home in Auburn, New York. Workers World celebrates the 200th anniversary of her birth with this commentary, first posted Feb. 18, 2007, on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s “Radio Essays.” (tinyurl.com/4cdr5ev8) She has…
A sound, video and music collage and discussion of the early African American music culture that molded Harriet Tubman, one of our most prolific ancestors.
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Watson: It's super hot, right? Super humid. Fields-Black: Very hot. You know, this is the mosquitoes’ heyday Watson: I'd be running for that boat, too. I mean if I could. Fields-Black: Exactly. But this is the time when the rice is sown. This is sort of the prime fieldwork time for rice plantations. But this is also a time when the plantation owners and the overseers are absent from the plantation from early May until mid- to late-November. Watson: That's intriguing. Fields-Black: So there are many, many ways that this was just planned. And there's also the tide. There's also the tide, the ...