52. Harriet Tubman: How Most Wanted Woman Never Got Caught (Ep 3)

Journey Through Time

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History

4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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What surprising tactics did Harriet use to avoid detection on her many missions to rescue enslaved people in the south? Who was John Brown, the fierce abolitionist willing to use violence to further his cause? Why was Harriet involved in the Harpers’ Ferry raid, one of the causes of the Civil War? Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at how Harriet Tubman brought so many people to safety. Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden Producer: Alice Horrell Head of History: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.9	Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm David Olusioga, and this is the third in our four-part series
0:53.5	on the life of Harriet Tubman
0:55.3	and the story of the Underground Railway. And we ended last time as Harriet's first step in her
1:01.3	career as an official conductor on the Underground Railway transporting and slave people
1:07.1	from the south to the north, from slavery to freedom. What comes next, David, is the part that people remembered about her career, what has survived
1:16.6	in the record, about what made her so legendary.
1:21.6	She developed a system.
1:23.6	And as we've been saying over the course of her story, her intelligence is very clear, and that
1:29.1	really comes through in the methods that she developed. So Harriet Tubman always pulled fugitives out
1:35.6	on a Saturday night. And this is because the enslaved often had permission to visit their
1:41.7	family on Sundays or other kinds of traveling passes on Sundays.
1:46.0	So what does that mean?
1:47.0	It means that they're not going to be missed until Monday morning because nobody expects to see them around on Sunday.
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