Harriet: A History We Never Knew

Jim Cherry
Nov 3 · 3 min read

As little kids in school we all learned about Harriet Tubman, she was a leader of the underground railroad and free many slaves and there was usually a picture of an older woman, you didn’t really think about it, you accepted it, and it was filed away as history, benign facts in a dry book. Harriet fleshes out the story, gives us a full-blooded Harriet Tubman, who yes, freed slaves (estimated to be about 70) and was of the few women in the American military who led an expedition against an enemy position. Harriet Tubman was a dangerous woman.

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Jim Cherry

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I lived the first 23 years of my life in my imagination. If you want to know more about me you can find me in between the lines of my stories.

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