harriet tubman

‘I swung my shoulder to the wheel’

by Dave Tabler

Above: Delores St. Armand as Harriet Tubman at 1978 National Portrait Gallery exhibit “Portraits in Motion.” Map courtesy Seaford Museum. Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) made no less than 19 trips to the south… Read More »‘I swung my shoulder to the wheel’

1857 drawing "The road to liberty; a station on the Underground Railroad" / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

The escaped slave who put Camden, DE on the Underground Railroad map

by Dave Tabler

Solomon Bayley, newly on the run, woke in terror to see two slave hunters walking straight toward the thicket where he’d spent the night. “I was struck with dread,” he wrote in his autobiography, “afraid… Read More »The escaped slave who put Camden, DE on the Underground Railroad map