The Hidden Talent That Helped Harriet Tubman Free Her People
Black History Year
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
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Harriet Tubman spent plenty of nights beneath the North Star, taking her freedom by any means necessary. But it’s this hidden talent she used to liberate herself and hundreds of others.
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| 0:00.0 | Harriet Tubman spent plenty of nights beneath the North Star, taking her freedom by any means necessary. |
| 0:12.0 | But it's this hidden talent she used to |
| 0:16.7 | liberate herself and hundreds of others. This is two-minute black history, What You Didn't Learn in School. Harriet Tubman was a woman of many talents. She could aim a pistol, inspire her people to fight for their freedom, and had a hidden talent |
| 0:45.7 | that she used to help us escape enslavement. |
| 0:48.8 | Tugman wasn't just a fierce leader guiding folks under the glimmering light of the North Star. |
| 0:55.1 | She was a baker and she used her cooking skills to fund her heroic journeys. |
| 1:00.6 | For Tupman, cooking was an ancestral gift. Tubman's mother, |
| 1:28.3 | was a cook too, and from her father she learned the practice of fasting on Fridays. One of her earliest food memories is cutting and toasting pieces of pork for her baby brother. |
| 1:34.3 | Harriet Tupman often went foraging in the forest for Sassafras, black cherry, and |
| 1:39.6 | Paul Paul as nourishment for the enslaved she helped escape. Food is the glue that kept |
| 1:46.3 | Tubman's life going through all her trials and tribulations. She ran an eating house |
| 1:52.0 | in Beaufort, South Carolina, supplementing her income as a nurse and spy by cooking and selling gingerbread and pies. |
| 2:00.0 | She also used herbs to treat sickly enslaved people. |
| 2:05.0 | We all have skills we can tap into to benefit ourselves and our communities. |
| 2:11.0 | Like Tubman, we must be willing to get our liberation by any means |
| 2:16.4 | necessary. In order to move towards the future you've got to look to the past. |
| 2:21.5 | This has been two- minute black history, a podcast by Push Black. |
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| 2:33.0 | Together, let's celebrate and honor the legacy of Black History. You're not. |
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