The Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman’s Goodbye Song | 5

American History Tellers

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped her enslaver in Maryland and freed herself. Over the next several years she took great personal risks, traveling back below the Mason-Dixon line at least a dozen times to free family and friends as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Today, Lindsay is joined by Angela Crenshaw, Director of the Maryland State Park Service, who helped lead the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park. Crenshaw shares her deep admiration for Tubman and provides insights into her life – from trapping muskrats in the swamps as a child to leading a raid behind Confederate lines during the Civil War.

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0:00.0	Imagine it's late at night in May 1863 in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
0:17.0	You're sitting in your one-room cabin on the Rice Plantation where you've been enslaved since you were a little boy.
0:23.0	A burning candle stub casts dim light over the cold leftover stew you're eating right out of the pot.
0:29.0	A sudden rustling outside sends a shiver down your spine. You put down your supper and crack
0:36.4	open the door to peer through the darkness. A small middle-aged black woman is standing on the
0:41.9	threshold.
0:43.0	Who are you?
0:44.2	names Harriet.
0:45.6	I need your help.
0:47.3	You eye her warily.
0:49.1	Help with what?
0:50.4	Are you going to let me in?
0:51.9	Or would you rather wake up the whole plantation?
0:55.0	You take a step back and motion for her to sit down.
1:00.0	You perch on the foot of your bed to face her.
1:02.0	What's this about?
1:04.0	I heard you help place mines in the Kumbi River.
1:06.0	A few months back?
1:08.0	Barrels full of gunpowder.
1:10.0	The rebels called them torpedoes.
1:12.0	I might have done.
1:14.0	Who told you so and what's it to you?
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