“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Harriet Ross in Maryland in 1820, was a great warrior, military commander and revolutionary leader. She escaped slavery and led the flight of hundreds of slaves out of the plantations of the slave-holding states in the South. She led them, through the “Underground Railroad” to the northern free states and to the Canadian territory. Tubman operated the “Underground Railroad” for 15 years at great risk to her own life as she was a fugitive slave herself who was contravening the laws in slave states by helping fellow slaves to escape. Continue reading “BLF HONORS THE REVOLUTIONARY LEGACY OF HARRIET TUBMAN”
