From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Kendall Cis Mayer, your host.

How much do you know about Araminta Ross?

Her face is slated to start appearing on the $20 bill by 2030.

She's the first American woman in history to lead a military raid that emancipated over 700 people.

And one of the most important abolitionists in history, you might know her by another name, Harriet Tubman. But when it comes to

Harriet Tubman's legacy, an important part of her lived experience is often overlooked, her disability.

With July being Disability Pride Month, we wanted to celebrate Harriet Tubman is an icon and learn more about

her identity from someone who finds her often rightly celebrated but seldom understood.

I think even though many of us may have known that Harriet Tubman suffered an injury in her

adolescent years.

Without the language of disability, we have a harder time understanding and really recognizing the importance of what these elements in her life meant to her and how they

affected her.

That's Taya Miles, a national book award winner and the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University.

In her latest book, Night Flyer, Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People,

Taya writes about the somewhat unsung aspects of Harriet Tubman's life,

her intertwined relationship with God and nature, which guided her activism

and connected her to a collective of other women of her time. Through Night Flyer, Taya

proves that even when it comes to the most heralded historical figures, there's always more to say. And today, she joins us to tell us all

about her new book, Connect Past and Present, and offer lessons from Harriet's Life that can help us

build a future of collective liberation. Taya, welcome to it Liberty, and thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having

me, Kendall. So first off, I just want to say congrats on the release of Night Flyer. I wanted to

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