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Jehan L. Roberson
Jehan L. Roberson

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·Oct 28, 2019

Tracing Harriet Tubman’s Steps

I 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 Tubman

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Tracing Harriet Tubman’s Steps
Tracing Harriet Tubman’s Steps
Harriet Tubman

7 min read

Jehan L. Roberson

Jehan L. Roberson

33 Followers

Jehan Roberson is a writer, educator, and artist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apogee, VICE, Public Books, and Women & Performance, among others.

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