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National Park Service removes photo of Harriet Tubman

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Historians and others say the changes to the language on the National Park Service website "erases history" and "changes the truth."
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The National Parks Service has reversed course and restored references of celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman to its webpage about the Underground Railroad.
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Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […]
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Harriet Tubman
(She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman ...
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General Harriet Tubman Finally Gets Her Due
Harriet Tubman is best known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was born around 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents, Harriet (“Rit”) Green and ...
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Where did Harriet Tubman go when she escaped from slavery ... fled from the Edward Brodas plantation in Maryland’s Dorchester County in 1849, she went to Pennsylvania; an early biography ...
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Ten heroic facts about the incredible Harriet Tubman
A plantation overseer threw an iron weight ... it is estimated that Tubman freed around 70 enslaved people. Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted ...
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