{"id":1035,"date":"2021-03-10T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:39:06","slug":"harriet-tubman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman – An anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harriet_Tubman_1895\"<\/a>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Good Movie – Harriet<\/a> – free on amazon prime. We watched it Sunday night. The incredibly talented  Cynthia Erivo<\/a> who also wrote and sang the theme song, played Tubman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today is the 108th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman<\/a> who was an escaped slave, made multiple trips back south to lead a total of about 70 escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad<\/a>, functioned as a Union spy during the Civil War, and performed multiple well documented heroic deeds. Incredible woman, she lived much of her life in Auburn, NY (the Finger Lakes District) in a property sold to her ($$$ was raised) in 1859 by abolitionist Republican U.S. Senator William H. Seward<\/a> . She used the property as a haven for escaped slaves and in her later years, she was an activist in the movement for the women's vote – women's suffrage<\/a>. Tubman was born sometime in March 1822; she had a long amazing life. The picture above was taken in 1895, when she was 73.<\/p>\n

The reason I'm posting this is because a week ago this past Saturday I found out (thank you Tom C) that a very famous sculpture of her was touring the country and happened to be in Peekskill, but was leaving the next day. So Brigid and I went up and had a look. Pretty cool. The artist statement is the last photo.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Good Movie – Harriet – free on amazon prime. We watched it Sunday night. The incredibly talented  Cynthia Erivo who also wrote and sang the theme song, played Tubman. Today is the 108th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman who was an escaped slave, made multiple trips back south to lead a total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}