Saturday, November 30, 2019
Endow Me (The Invitation) - Rev. James Moore
Proverbs 15:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.What You Never Knew About Harriet Tubman
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
In December 1851, Tubman guided an unidentified group of 11 fugitives, possibly including the Bowleys and several others she had helped rescue earlier, northward. There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.[64]
In his third autobiography, Douglass wrote: "On one occasion I had eleven fugitives at the same time under my roof, and it was necessary for them to remain with me until I could collect sufficient money to get them on to Canada.
It was the largest number I ever had at any one time, and I had some difficulty in providing so many with food and shelter. ... "[65] The number of travelers and the time of the visit make it likely that this was Tubman's group.[64]
Douglass and Tubman admired one another greatly as they both struggled against slavery. When an early biography of Tubman was being prepared in 1868, Douglass wrote a letter to honor her. He compared his own efforts with hers, writing:
The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. ... The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.[66]
During her second trip, Araminta recovered her brother Moses and two unidentified men
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
The next spring she returned to Maryland to help guide away other family members. During her second trip, she recovered her brother Moses and two unidentified men.[59]
Tubman likely worked with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.[60]
Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that with each trip to Maryland, she became more confident.[59][61]
In the fall of 1851, Tubman returned to Dorchester County for the first time since her escape, this time to find her husband John.
She saved money from various jobs, purchased a suit for him, and made her way south. Meanwhile, John had married another woman named Caroline. Tubman sent word that he should join her, but he insisted that he was happy where he was.
Tubman at first prepared to storm their house and make a scene, but then decided he was not worth the trouble. Suppressing her anger, she found some slaves who wanted to escape and led them to Philadelphia.[62]
John and Caroline raised a family together, until he was killed 16 years later in a roadside argument with a white man named Robert Vincent.[63]
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