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You're listening to episode 211 of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about Harriet Tubman.

I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken.

Hi Jimmy. Howdy, Dom.

Boke's Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. Despite this, she not only escaped and made it to

freedom, she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and she helped numerous other people

to freedom as well. During this time, she had many amazing experiences, including visions and

paranormal experiences. So who was Harriet Tubman? What happened during her dramatic life?

And why did she have such extraordinary experiences? Well, that's what we'll be talking about

on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World. Jimmy, what do we need to say is background

to this story? We need to set the context for Harriet Tubman's life by looking at the institution

of slavery, both in world history and in relation to American history, where it came to be intertwined

with the subject of race. Both slavery and race can be very sensitive subjects, even though the vast

majority of people in America today fortunately believe that both slavery and racism are evil.

There are still a lot of passionate feelings about it, particularly in America, which is still

healing from our national experience with the institution. Here on Mysterious World, I seek to

look at historical mysteries in a rigorously truthful way. And I find that the best way to understand

the truth about a situation is to present the facts in a calm, objective way. Like I do,

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