The Harriet Tubman Story
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a pistol-packing, fearless, and inspiring visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom. Here to tell her story is Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.
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| 1:00.8 | Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history, a fearless visionary, who led scores |
| 1:06.3 | of her fellow slaves to freedom. |
| 1:09.1 | Here to tell the story is Kate Clifford Larson, author of Bound for |
| 1:13.1 | the Promise Land, Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. Let's take a listen. |
| 1:22.3 | I had my MBA. I was working for an investment bank in the late 1980s, and I decided that I, I just wasn't happy doing that. |
| 1:31.2 | And my passion was really history. |
| 1:33.7 | So I went to Simmons University here in Boston, and my daughter was seven years old at the time and in second grade. |
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