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When Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913 at age 91, the storied abolitionist left the world a legacy of freedom, fearlessness and fierce advocacy for Black people, women and all Americans. She was born Araminta “Minty” Ross in Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore circa 1822. Tubman spent nearly three decades in bondage before escaping the inhumanity of slavery. (Watch the short film Harriet Tubman: Soldier of Freedom.) Known as “Moses,” she repeatedly risked her life as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses. Among those she liberated ...

Tubman reportedly had a beautiful singing voice and would sing two songs – “Go Down Moses” and “Bound For the Promised Land" – as signals while leading escapes. Tubman would change the tempo of the songs to let escaping slaves know if it was safe to come out of hiding. 2.) Two years after escaping, Tubman came back for her husband. But, he wasn't interested.  Around 1844, Tubman married a free man named John Tubman. When Harriet escaped slavery in 1850, she did so alone, leaving her husband behind in Maryland. Two years later, she returned to the Eastern Shore, hoping to bring her ...

167 4 minutes read This article is part of Liberation’s commemoration of Black History Month, 2021. May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if women have a pint and man a quart – ...

Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi, editors of "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019." (Courtesy) It's been more than 400 years since the first African slaves arrived on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. The new book "Four Hundred Souls" explores the history, trials and triumphs of their Black American descendants through a series of 90 essays and poems — and highlights their continuing struggle for racial justice. WBUR's Morning Edition host Bob Oakes spoke with author and historian Ibram X. Kendi, who is one of the book's editors and the founder of Bost...

Her accomplishments often have been entombed in middle school history books, however she was so much more than a symbol for a resistance movement against the brutal injustices of America’s dehumanizing enslavement of Black Americans: She was a real person who lived a full life for the betterment of society and humanity. Harriet was her mother’s first name, and Tubman was her husband’s last name. Her original name was Araminta Ross, and she was born into slavery in 1820 or 1821 on the eastern shore of Maryland.  (Library of Congress) Tubman, who did not read or write, escape...