ABOUT THIS EPISODE
A secret network of safe houses carried enslaved people to freedom — one night at a time, at the risk of everything. Harriet Tubman escaped, then turned around and went back thirteen times — and never lost a single passenger.
English
United States
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Autumn, 1849. In Maryland, a woman named Harriet Tubman slips
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out of the cabin where she has lived as an
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enslaved person all her life. She is about twenty-seven years old.
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She has no map, no money, and no one to
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guide her. She walks by night, following the North Star,
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hiding by day in woods and swamp…
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00:00:00.230 --> 00:00:06.169
Autumn, 1849. In Maryland, a woman named Harriet Tubman slips
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00:00:06.269 --> 00:00:08.289
out of the cabin where she has lived as an
3
00:00:08.369 --> 00:00:13.339
enslaved person all her life. She is about twenty-seven years old.
4
00:00:14.050 --> 00:00:17.280
She has no map, no money, and no one to
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00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:21.500
guide her. She walks by night, following the North Star,
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00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:26.300
hiding by day in woods and swamp…
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