After Harriet Tubman stole herself from slavery and crossed into the fee state of Penn she looked at her hands “to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees and fields and I felt like I was in heaven...”
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Yet she immediately planned to return to liberate others still captive in “Pharaoh’s Land.” All told she returned 19 times, risking death each time, liberating at least 300 slaves. She was known as “Moses.” She died March 10, 1913.
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Bradford, Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman. An early source (1869) cited in all bios of Tubman.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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