Not far from here is Auburn, New York, final resting place of the incredible Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913)
She was not content merely to have escaped the brutal slavery into which she was born. Risking her freedom and her life, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy other slaves, and during the Civil War she led an armed expedition that liberated 700 more.
Maybe she did all this because of that wound to the head that caused periods of hypersomnia and “visions.”
Maybe it was a wound to the heart.
Either way, definitely my kind of woman.
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I would have freed thousands more.
-- Harriet Tubman
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That quote is enough to feed a lifetime's thought. And -- hopefully -- action.
T
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