In celebration of African Heritage Month, for Profiles in Excellence, we honor Harriet Tubman. She was many things in her life, slave, escaped slave, rebel, liberator, soldier, spy, nurse, commander. Originally named Araminta, later renamed Harriet, after her mother. She could not abide slavery and escaped at her earliest opportunity. She would rather return over and over again to free her brothers, to free her parents and to free hundreds of others who heard the low whistle of the Underground Railroad.
In 1863 she guided the successful Union raid on rebel property at Combahee River, South Carolina, where nearly eight hundred slaves were liberated and millions of dollars of rebel property was destroyed. When she was lauded and praised for her freedom fighting, she re jected it by saying, “I would have freed a lot more slaves if they knew they were slaves.” For Hard Knock Radio and Prison Radio, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
