No. 137 - Harriet Tubman

In the novel Push by Sapphire the main character, Precious Jones, refers quite often to Harriet Tubman.

I learned that Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and a Union spy during the Civil War. She was born into slavery but later escaped and made more than a dozen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

I remember hearing when I was young that the house I grew up in was a stop on the Underground Railroad. There was a small hidden room in the cellar under the stairs that may have once been a hiding place during the movement of slaves from town to town.