Harriet

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ahoi, my friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome aboard the Afro Tales Barcans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your storyteller, Monna Zinger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Join me as we explore the tales that grew from the people of indigenous and African descent in the Americas and the Caribbean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After, come and see me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Chef, who will impart upon me?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't been for the story you have just made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with no further ado, let us set set on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: New age of exploration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If a story among plantation slaves was about a runaway who was being chased by his master, then suddenly the slave disappeared.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was as if the fugitive had found an underground road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This story is perhaps the origin of the term underground railroad, which was neither underground nor a railroad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, it was a name of an elaborate system of secret escape routes, runaways used to reach freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those who helped escapees were called conductors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the safe houses where slaves were given help, along their way, were called stations.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fugitives were hidden in addicts, basements, and secret passageways, and tunnels.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They traveled using forced papers, funny passes, and disguises.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Men disguised themselves as women, and women disguised themselves as men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: used all kinds of daring schemes to help runaways or eat freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Quakers played a prominent role in the runaway system, and so did other groups, such as the Westland Methodist, the Unitarians, Jews, and Roman Catholics.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, historians have overlooked the role African Americans played in this movement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: According to John Holt, Franklin, a noted African American historian and teacher prior to 1830, the Underground Railroad was not an organized part of the abolitionist movement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet slaves had been running away for two centuries, and once free these fugitives reached back to help others escape to freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it is more accurate to say that it was black courage and perseverance and the spirited enthusiastic support of whites that brought many men, women and children out of slavery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those who risked their lives and personal safety to become part of this active group of rebels are among America's most honored heroes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the history of the Underground Railroad, no one is more representative of this kind of rebel than Harriet Tubman, who for 10 years was one of the most successful conductors

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[SPEAKER_00]: Biographies have made Harriet seem larger than life, and in some ways she was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But physically, Harriet was a short woman who stood a little over five feet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was born in 1820 or 1821.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet Green and Ben Rose were her parents.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they all belong to Mass Brothers, who own a plantation in Butte Town, Maryland.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They named her Arminta, or Minty, for short.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she grew up with 11 brothers and sisters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Listening to songs and stories told in the quarters, when she was six years old, Minty

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miss Susan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Minty's job was to keep the baby quiet, but when she couldn't do it, which was often.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miss Susan beat her with a whip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here is about the taste of sugar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet took

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miss Susan caught Minty and accused the girl of stealing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Minty hid behind the pick hand to escape the terrible beating she knew was in store for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Several days later, when she finally returned, Miss Susan took her back to the Broda's plantation, complaining that she wasn't worth the six pennies she paid for Minty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Little Minty had survived her first rebellious act, and it was the beginning of her long career as a rebel against slavery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Normally, unruly slaves were sold, but Minty was so small.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was assigned to the fields where she'd learned to chop and hold cotton along side or brothers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But before long, she was hired out again to James Cooks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mrs. Cook was a weaver and Mr. Cook was a trapper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When Minty couldn't make her fingers learn how to weave, Mr. Cook took Minty out into the woods with him to check the traps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What a surprise to learn that there were no ghost in the woods.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The overseers always told Black children that story to keep them from running away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, she knew better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Minty overcame her fear of darkness and learned the sounds and smells of the woodlands and fields and how to move quietly through the brush.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She also learned to identify the stars, especially the North Star, and to find Moss on the North side of a tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All this she'd put in her head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't know it then, but this information would save her life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The work was hard, but she didn't mind, because she was learning so much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But working in the cold and being wet, most of the time, made her sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When she told Cook, she didn't feel well, he accused her of being lazy and insisted that she worked that day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By evening, Minty was burning with fever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't want her to die.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brodo's could demand payment for the lost of his property.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Minty probably had pneumonia, but her mother knew how to treat sicknesses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With loving hands, her mother prepared a sigh, and rubbed it on Minty's chest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Soon the fever broke, and Minty got better and stronger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One day, when she was 16, Minty interfered with it over zero was chasing a runaway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He hurled a heavy iron weight that knocked the girl unconscious for eight months, mintied lingered between life and death in a coma.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My maheria did all she could to heal the wound that had gashed open her child's head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Once again, minty recovered, but she was never the same.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She even changed her name to Harriet in honor of her mother.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After the blow to her head, Harriet would sometimes stop in the middle of a sentence, stand for a few minutes, don't steal, as if asleep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then, coming around, she would pick up her conversation right where she left off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her symptoms suggested that she may have had a mild form of epilepsy brought on by the blow to her head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But back then, people thought Harriet was just prone to spells and fits.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Since early childhood, Harriet had believed in dreams and ohms, but as she grew older, she shared them more with her mother.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In one dream, she saw a line dividing slavery from freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On one side, she saw people holding out their hands to her and calling her Moses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry believed God had a plan for her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mom and Harry believed you too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God will send me a sign.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry said, in time, Harry and Mary John Tubman, a free man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She continued to work in the fields, Harriet was physically very strong, strong as a man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes her master had Harriet demonstrate her strength by pulling the load of an oxen on mule.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was degrading and humiliating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Harriet had no choice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She had to obey her master.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One day, Harriet discovered that she was going to be sold into the deep South.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That night, she prayed and, by morning, she knew the answer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wouldn't run away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When she told Johns up and he tried to discourage her, Harriet turned to her brothers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They said out, but they were so frightened, they decided to return to the plantation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet returned too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The next time she decided she would go along.

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[SPEAKER_00]: During the summer of 1849, Harriet ran.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't say goodbye to anyone, not even John.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she stood outside her parents' shack and sang a song, hoping they would hear it, and remember that it was her way of saying goodbye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When that old cherry had come, I'm going to be you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bound for the promised land.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to leave you, Harriet made it to the home of a Quaker woman several miles away, who had befriended her when Harriet was a young girl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After resting and eating, Harriet was slipped away to the next save house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With the help of others, Harriet inched along on this invisible highway to freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Within weeks, Harriet was in Philadelphia, where she was free, really free.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After a while, Harriet made contact with a black man named William Steele, who was secretary of the Philadelphia vigilance committee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is where runaways not only sought safety, but where they came to see if they could find out news about their families, and to meet other runaways in here about their bold escapes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry and no doubt heard about Henry Box Brown, who was shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia by the Adam's Express Company in a box.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The story of the crafts must have been exciting to hear about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: William and Ellen Crab escaped in one of the most ingenious plans ever devised by fugitives.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ellen, who was a fair skin black, posed as Master of William.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To keep him having to speak, Ellen pretended to be too ill and frail to socialize.

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[SPEAKER_00]: William explained that his master was on his way north to receive treatment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Though they narrowly escaped detection, the sham worked, and the crafts made it to freedom and became vocal abolitionist.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She never tired of hearing stories about their exports.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me coughing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A Quaker from Indiana helped 3,000 slaves escape.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Calvin Fairbanks, who had learned to hate slavery while a student at Oberlin, went throughout the South beginning in 1837, helping slaves to escape.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Working with a white woman from Vermont only known as Miss Webster, slaves posed as her servants and she escorted him to freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fairbanks both did that none of his escapeies were.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Caut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he was captured and served as 17 years in prison for his work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Conductors were found not only in the north, John Fairfield, son of a Virginia slave-holding family, learned to despise the system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He helped several slaves to escape from his own father's plantation, before moving to a free state.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fairfield posed as a slave-holder and went through our Louisiana, Alabama,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, arranging for magic games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes he took them all to Levy Coffin who arranged for them to be held the rest of the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fairfield's greatest triumph was helping 28 slaves to freedom by organizing them into a funeral

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is possible Harriet might have met Jane Lugus of New Glemon on Ohio, who was responsible for growing fugitives across the Ohio River, and Elijah Anderson, who from 1850 to 1857 led hundreds of people to freedom before dying in prison for his actions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: were also conductors who ushered hundreds to freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: David Ruggles in New York had been the conductor who grudied Frederick Douglass and helped him on his way to New Haven, Connecticut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was Josiah Henson who inspired Harriet the most because after escaping to freedom,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He risked everything by returning to the south to personally help others.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet worked for two years in Philadelphia and saved her money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She visited with steel and his group regularly, gaining courage from their work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then word came that the movement was in serious trouble, a tougher future to slave law had been passed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Runaways could be hunted into free territory and taken back to slavery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The only safe place for them was Canada or Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That meant

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Underground Railroad had to be extended further north into Canada.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stations opened in Battle Creek, Michigan, Buffalo, New York, Beloit, Wisconsin, and other points north.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another route was set up moving through Texas and across the border in Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some slaves ran away as far as what is now Washington State and lived among Native Americans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fugitive slave act turned more people into abolitionists than it stopped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Northerners resented bounty hunters coming into their communities.

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[SPEAKER_00]: insisting that they be helped in their slave catching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Most people wanted no part of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet's freedom was in jeopardy too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She could go to Canada or Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But she wanted to become more involved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a speaker like Frederick Douglas, James W.C. Pennington, Sojana Trude, or Henry Highland Garnet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a writer like David Walker, William G. Allen, William Lloyd Garrison.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she wasn't an organizer, such as Sarah Parker, Raymond, or David Ruggles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: what could she do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: She decided to follow Joe Sia Hinson's example and become a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't but that once she applied when people tried to tell her about the dangers of her mission.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet's first trip to Maryland's eastern shore was in 1850.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When that old cherry had come, I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bound for the promised land, friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She went back to get her sister first, and then her brother, and two other slaves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first person she wanted to see was John Tubman, her husband.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He now loved someone else and had moved her into his house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Broken hearted, Harriet started to make a fuss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then she realized her personal anger and her should not ruin it for everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She tucked away her heart and sorrow and focused on what she had to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet never asked others to do what she herself could or would not do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When that old chariot come, I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bound for the promised land, friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She brought out men, women and children, young and old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anybody with a burning desire to be free.

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[SPEAKER_00]: out of bondage and on up to Canada, those who went with Harriet had to understand that she was not going to risk the life of the whole group because one person wanted to turn around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I shoot the person who gives out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She told them before they started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, she replied with no hesitation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If he or she was weak enough to get out, he'd be weak enough to betray us all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And all who had helped us, and do you think I let so minute die just for one coward man?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever have to shoot anyone?

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[SPEAKER_00]: She smiled.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then began to dance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: a man gave out the second night we was out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His feet were sore and swollen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't go any further.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd rather go back than that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing could convince him to continue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when Harry said.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When he heard her give the order, he reluctantly ran away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jumped right up and went on as well as anybody made it right on the freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, Harriet never lost a person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Times were often miserable and tiring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people had babies and she had to keep them quiet by even them, lawnmower, acidity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Once when she was on a trip to the south, Harriet ran into one of her old masters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was so bold she spoke to him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Except for one sister, she let out all her family, including her old parents and hundreds of strangers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her efforts did not stop once they reached Canada, either.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She collected clothing, organized, runaways into societies, and she was always occupied with plans for their benefit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: African Americans called her the Moses of her people, slaveholders called her a nuisance and put a hefty bounty on her head, $40,000 dead or a line, they never called her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: During the Civil War, Harry is served as a spy and a nurse for the Union Army.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After the war, she moved to Auburn, New York.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Later she turned her home over to the African Methodist, the Piscbull signed church, to be used as a home for the needy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harry died in 1913 at the age of 93.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When that old cherry had come, I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm bound for the promise, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Friends, I'm going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that is an awesome story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Coming from the book Rebels Against Slavery, American Slavery Wolves by Patricia C. Missack and Virgin El, McKessack.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the story of Harriet Tubman, and for this black history month, you know, you guys keep trying to give you guys a black history story to go with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's no mean you're going to be around June 10th or it's going to be black history month, but I'm going to try to give you a figure of black history if I can.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Harriet Tubman, the Moses of our people, is a

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[SPEAKER_00]: wonderful story about a strong woman barely five feet tall, but that risked her life over and over and over again for our people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like the part in the book, in the story, where they mention that black people had been freeing themselves, prior to the construction of the underground railroad, because that is what we were doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Black people have always freed themselves with the assistance of other ethnicities.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because no matter what, no matter how you look at it, unless they came into the plantation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Grabbed us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and took us to freedom, we as black people had to free ourselves, run away ourselves, escape into the woods, take that risk, life or death, we were going to make it to freedom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: fugitive slave acts, the laws of being going into hunt, down people who shouldn't be there to take them back to where they felt they belonged, is amazing, Harriet Tubman would have been one of those people that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doctors and lawyers would have deemed that Cartwright coined Drapedomania, which is defined as a mental illness that caused enslaved black people to run away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drake Dominia if you've never heard of it is what they said that black people who desired their freedom and tried to run away from slavery had they were mentally ill by their clinical

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Harriet, and all the other sheep freed and all the other is mentioning this book definitely had it because they Folks had to be freed by any means necessary People just want to live free be free to do what they want to do, which is to live peacefully

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not much I can say about Miss Harriet Tubman, she's a phenomenal being and will always be remembered for her achievements in this world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, with that being said, go see Chef, he has it wonderful recipe for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and something he learned about just recently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, my friends, thank you for coming on this journey with me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for telling a friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you for being free.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have a blessed day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to my friends at the gathering.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am your chef, chef, and today we have a wonderful recipe inspired by the story of just her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, we will be creating burnt sugar cake with caramel flavor, of course, not what do you need for this heritage recipe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: burnt for syrup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 1.5 cups sugar, 1.5 cup of boiling water, 3.4 cups of butter, softened, 2 eggs, separated, 1 cup of cold water, 3 cups of all purpose flour, 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda, level

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[SPEAKER_00]: One teaspoon of vanilla extract, optional, in third full flavor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how do we put this together?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fairly easy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Step one, make the bent shira set up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In a heavy bottom saucepan, heat half a cup of sugar over medium heat until golden brown and caramelized.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, carefully add three quarters cup of boiling hot water and stir until smooth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sema until a thick syrup forms set aside to cool slightly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Step two, cream, butter and sugar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: in a mixing bowl, cream ¼ cup of butter, and 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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[SPEAKER_00]: Step 4.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mix dry ingredients.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In a separate bowl, sieve together the flour and baking soda.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Combine batter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alternating with one cup of water.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mix until smooth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, six fold in the egg whites.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Gently fold them into the batter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Seven bake the cake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 175 Celsius.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pour batter into greased and floured pans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember to grease and flour.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Big for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a 2p comes out clean, 8 cool and serve, allow to cool before removing from pile, serve plain or with a light blaze or frosting, and as is it my friends,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, Harriet told me, always, and until next time, my friends, there's always, enjoy!

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, my friends for coming on this board.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So until we meet again, may your wins be fair and your seas follow.