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A Woman Called Moses is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marcy Heidish, about the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who led dozens of other African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
Ben, a rebellious young African American, mysteriously becomes trapped in the past with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. He experiences life with Tubman as a slave on a Maryland plantation. When the master of the plantation dies, Ben and Harriet use the Underground Railroad to gain their freedom and escape Pennsylvania. Ben discovers purpose and ...
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. [2] [3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, [4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.
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A new tribute to Harriet Tubman opens this weekend in Howard County. What once was a school for Black people is now a museum. Historic high school reformed for Harriet Tubman, Black history [Video]
It also applauds the author for the way in which the text was framed, as "an ongoing dialogue between Tubman and God." [2] Kirkus awarded it a starred review, praising "Nelson’s double-page, full-bleed paintings" that "illuminate both the dire physical and transcendent spiritual journey" that Harriet endures. Kirkus also commends the "elegant ...
Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorchester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the ...
There is evidence, however, that the Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman used at least two songs. Sarah Bradford's biography of Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, published in 1869, quotes Tubman as saying that she used "Go Down Moses" as one of two code songs to communicate with fugitive enslaved people escaping from Maryland.