“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” — Harriet Tubman to Sarah Bradford in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, 1868. True stories of the…
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Clockwise from the top left, Frederick Douglass, Book jacket of 'Tubman Travels', Moses Viney (who escaped slavery and settled into NY) and Harriet Tubman. Photo courtesy of Visit Annapolis. Those who’ve seen the film “Harriet,” the Hollywood version of the Harriet Tubman story, no doubt came away…
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A glimpse of the rear entrance to Hammond-Harwood House and it's gardens. Photo courtesy of Hammond-Harwood House. To be sure, early Americans in previous centuries weren’t shopping online or pinning their favorite interiors and furnishings to their Pinterest boards. And of course, back in the time…
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