Published inZORA·Oct 28, 2019Member-onlyTracing Harriet Tubman’s StepsI traversed her journey to freedom in order to make sense of both the past and present — In the summer of 2017 I found myself in the Bucktown Village Store in Maryland, the same store where Harriet Tubman almost died. The history goes that when asked to help restrain an enslaved man resisting his overseer, Tubman refused. The overseer then threw a two-pound metal weight at the…Harriet Tubman7 min readHarriet Tubman7 min read