Political Quotes

“today, on the first day of Black History Month, I am proud to reintroduce The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act. The woman, who is known to us as Harriet Tubman, was born in approximately 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland and given the name Araminta, Minty, Ross. She spent nearly 30 years of her life in slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore. As an adult she took the first name Harriet, and when she was 25 she married John Tubman. Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849. She did so in the dead of night, navigating the maze of tidal streams and wetlands that, to this day, comprise the Maryland Eastern Shore landscape. She did so alone, demonstrating courage, strength and fortitude that became her hallmarks. Not satisfied with attaining her own freedom, she returned repeatedly for more than 10 years to the places of her enslavement in Dorchester and Caroline counties where, under the most adverse conditions, she led away many family members and other slaves to freedom in the Northeastern United States. Tubman became known as 'Moses' by African-Americans and white abolitionists. She is the most famous and most important conductor of the network of resistance known as the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, Tubman served the Union forces as a spy, a scout and a nurse.”