13 thoughts on “WCW: Harriet Tubman

  1. Not enough, but I’m going to see the new film. Cicely Tyson is the mark the actress will need to live up to.

  2. I will definitely be seeing the new movie — I remember seeing this amazing Harriet Tubman play where she fooled a slave hunter into thinking she was able to read because she’d basically memorized the Bible. It was GREAT.

  3. How many of her on screen appearances acknowledge her brain damage? I’m pro-intersectionality and will be annoyed if Tubman’s gets downplayed

      1. When she was young, she got hit in the head with a metal weight while helping another enslaved person escape. She served as a conductor and military spy knowing she was prone to losing consciousness without warning.

          1. It makes the fact she was never caught even more amazing. There were times she would have a “sleeping spell” in the middle of leading slaves; they would wait with her wherever they happened to be (even in the middle of the woods) until we regained consciousness.

  4. If you want to know the story of Harriet Tubman, please read the paper back books written by Sara Bradford.

    She is the only person that Harriet Tubman had a one on one conversation with about her Life. Check it out for yourself.

    Sara Bradford was a part of the Underground Movement.

  5. Was she portrayed in “Sleepy Hollow”? I think she was, but that might be wishful thinking

    1. “Sleepy Hollow” was set during the end of the 18th century. Harriet Tubman was born in 1820. And she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad by 1850 or 1851.

      1. It’s a fair question – the TV show ‘Sleepy Hollow’ jumped around in time & had Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln in 2 of the later episodes, so that’s contemporary to Harriet Tubman. But I didn’t keep up w/the show & can’t be sure if Tubman was in it.

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