Ye Olde Gossip: Abby Breaks Down What A Bad-Ass Harriet Tubman Was!
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Bird Show. What I love about history is that it really is just a bunch of gossip. It's a bunch of hot information that you didn't even know about. And so because it's February and we're honoring Black History Month, I wanted to give y'all a little hot tea about Harriet Tubman. So did you know that Harriet Tubman's own husband didn't want her to escape slavery? |
| 0:23.5 | It's crazy. |
| 0:24.4 | Ladies, you got to learn from our girl that sometimes you got to lose the dead weight to make American history. |
| 0:30.5 | So this is the story of how Harriet Tubman's first husband almost stopped her from changing the world. |
| 0:38.0 | It's pretty crazy. |
| 0:39.2 | So her husband was a free black man. |
| 0:42.7 | And when she was like, hey babe, I'd really like to be free, he was like, well, that puts |
| 0:47.7 | my freedom at risk. |
| 0:49.0 | So let's not do that. |
| 0:50.7 | And Harriet Tubman was not about to let this scrub hold her back. |
| 0:54.1 | So at 27 years old, she escapes |
| 0:57.2 | slavery on her own. I'm 27 years old and the only thing I'm capable of escaping is a bad |
| 1:02.4 | hinged date. So she escapes and could have lived a totally free life in Canada. But she's like, |
| 1:08.8 | no, first of all, it's cold as hell here. Second of all, I want to go back and get my man's. |
| 1:13.1 | So she comes back and finds out that he's already moved on to another chick. This dude. He remarries. |
| 1:20.7 | Crazy. So nothing is more motivating than a bad breakup. So she's like, if I can't get my man back, |
| 1:27.4 | I'm going to make history. A woman's scorn is going to get some stuff done, man. So she's like, if I can't get my man back, I'm going to make history. |
| 1:28.6 | A woman's scorn is going to get some stuff done, man. So she's already been conducting at this point on the |
| 1:33.3 | Underground Railroad, but she goes to a Union battle camp in South Carolina. Reminder, Union armies are the good guys. |
| 1:40.0 | And at first she's just working as a nurse. And she's looking at all these white army dudes laying around playing Fortnite. |
| 1:46.5 | And she becomes the first Karen in history. |
| 1:48.4 | And is like, let me speak to the manager. |
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