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TURNER – Journalist Ron Stodghill traveled Maryland’s Eastern Shore following in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman. His travels and notes on historical events relating to Tubman’s own journey are captured in this interactive news story produced by the New York Times.
Visit ‘Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom’ and discover history. In the opening paragraphs, Stodhill writes, “From the early 1600s until the mid-1800s, thousands of African-Americans would encounter the marshy wooded landscape of the Chesapeake Bay region, first as a gateway through which slave traders forcibly brought them from Africa into the colonies and later as essential paths and waterways that formed the Underground Railroad.
“In 1850, Maryland had 279 runaway slaves, leading the nation’s slave states in successfully executed escapes, the author Kate Clifford Larson says in the Harriet Tubman biography “Bound for the Promised Land.” “But few returned to the land of their enslavers, risking capture and re-enslavement, even lynching, to help others seek their own emancipation,” Ms. Larson writes.
“Among those few was Tubman.”
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