But she must have had one of these faces that's very changeable. “She's a tiny little thing, like a strong wind might blow her away…And she looks kind of like nobody. “She's 5 feet tall,” Elizabeth Cobbs, author of The Tubman Command told NPR.

She escaped her own slavery in 1849 but returned to the South and over the next decade rescued dozens of fellow enslaved people. Tubman has long been famous throughout the world for her work as a brilliant, daring guide for the Underground Railroad. All I ask is united effort, for united we stand divided we fall.” “The work is now well started, and I know God will raise up others to take care of the future. “I did not take up this work for my own benefit, but those of my race who need help,” she said humbly that day. Officially called the Harriet Tubman Home, it was just one more selfless act in a lifetime of service.

“With the Stars and Stripes wound about her shoulders, a band playing national airs and a concourse of members of her race gathered about her to pay tribute to her lifelong struggle on behalf of the colored people of America, aged Harriet Tubman Davis, the Moses of her race, yesterday experienced one of the happiest moments of her life, a period to which she has looked forward for a score of years,” wrote The Auburn Citizen.įor 15 years, an increasingly frail Tubman had dreamt of a rest home for elderly and infirm Black folks in New York and had worked tirelessly to achieve its opening. At the center of the festivities was a seemingly delicate, elderly woman. OL97842W Page_number_confidence 86.36 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220224225221 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 740 Scandate 20220217160018 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316155946 Tts_version 4.On June 23, 1908, there was a grand celebration in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:06:32 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40372202 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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