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National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman

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Tubman’s removal from the “Underground Railroad” page “is both offensive and absurd,” Fergus Bordewich, a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, told CNN Sunday.
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According to The Washington Post, the National Park Service has quietly edited the part of its website that covers the Underground Railroad in a way that characterizes it as some colorblind “Kumbaya” ...

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