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"Moses" was her nickname - she took 19 trips to the South and freed over 300 slaves in a 10 year period of her life. Harriet Tubman told Frederick Douglas that she never lost a passenger on her Underground Railroad. A fearless woman in a time that was fraught with perils for anyone of color, let alone a woman who suffered from seizures that made her fall fast asleep. The injury was caused when she stood between a field hand and an angry master. A two pound weight was thrown and landed on her head. That would have stopped most anyone but never Harriet.Saturday, February 14th at 11:00 am, Karol and James Brown present "A Visit with Aunt Harriet" at the Renton Historical Museum. This is a free program and I cannot stress enough how wonderful every offering on the museum's Speaker Program has been - and I am certain that this will make a nice addition to your Valentine's Day morning.
Renton Historical Museum (425)255-2330
235 Mill Ave. South, Downtown Renton
info@rentonhistory.org
(Photo: Harriet Tubman, 1913 from bobster1985/Flickr)
1 comment:
Thank you Patricia! I am going to try and make this one. The Underground Railroad is so fascinating to me. I would like to think I would have been a help in it had I been alive at the time.
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