Power
Responsible handlers of power.
John H. Clarke
Times
Does it Make Black Sense?
Many, Many
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Enemy Lines
Does it Make Black Sense?
Behind
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Miles
Does it Make Black Sense?
500
Miles
Does it Make Black Sense?
Fugitive African Act
the captors
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Morality
In service of Oppression
Morality
In service of Oppression
Morality
In service of Oppression
Morality
In service of
FREEDOM
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Mind’s Eye
Black Woman
Black Child
Black Man?
No Universal Black Orphan!
UBO = Black Character W/
No Family
No Community
No Culture
=
No Mission & Direction
Ordinary
brother
doing
extra-
ordinary
things.
The Super Hero Trap:
No super powers?
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I Give up, or
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Satisfy myself with
a fantasy victory
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Grand Mother
o
Modesty
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Parents:
o
Harriet Greene
o
Ben Ross
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
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Sisters:
o
Linah (1808)
o
Soph (1813)
o
Mariah Ritty (1811)
o
Araminta (1820)
o
Rachel (1825)
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
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Brothers:
o
Robert (1816)
o
Ben (1823)
o
Henry (1830)
o
Moses (1832
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
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Husbands
o
John Tubman
o
Nelson Davis
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Daughter:
o
Gertie Davis
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
1791 "Benjamin
Banne -ka's
Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, and Virginia
Almanac.".
1811, Jan. 8 –
400-500 Afrikans
revolt in Louisiana.
1816, Paul Cuffee (Kofi)
transports a group of
Afrikans to Sierra Leone
1816, Andrew Jackson
attacks Negro Fort killing
300 Africans (Gulla)and
Native (Seminole) soldiers
Maybe they enjoyed that
Ole’ Ringshout that
Modesty loved so much
Captor - Barbarian, Susan gave
5 Year-old Harriet
4 lashes before breakfast!
@5
Harriet - The rest of the story.
@7 Harriet was forced to take
care of the captor’s baby. If
baby cried, Harriet was
whipped.
Learn how she escaped @ 7
“I stayed there from Friday
until next Tuesday, fighting
with the little pigs for scraps…
HT
“So now Harriet would
come home beaten up,
whimpering, muttering her
hate and vengance,
praying, showing too much
wisdom for a child not yet
in her teens”
Conrad
“When I crossed the line, I looked at my
hands to see if I was the same person. There
was such glory in everything; the sun came
like gold through the trees, and over the
fields, and I was free like I was in
Heaven.”
I was free; but I was a stranger
in a strange land, no one to welcome me.
My father, my mother, my brothers, my
sisters were in Maryland. I was
free and they should be free!
Ordinary sister
doing
extra-ordinary things
Warrior
Behind Enemy
Lines
May 2, 1973
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Black Panther Party and BLA members
Assata Shakur, Sundiata Acoli, Zayd Malik Shakur
stopped by NJ Police for broken tailight
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Assata shot twice by NJ State Police
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She and Sundiata Acoli arrested. Zayd Malik
Shakur killed.
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Assata convicted of murdering NJ State Police that
she couldn’t have due to her wounds
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Assata abused before and while in prison
Assata
Why are they
relevant to a story
about Harriet
Tubman?
Assata
•
Embody Tubman’s Legacy
•
Part of a movement for
liberation
•
?
Write the letter for him.
Captivity without submission!
The Choice
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Get Out!
She led some &
directed others!
Excerpted from Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden
History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner.
Copyright © 2015 by Eric Foner
Secret Order of The
Oppressed!
George DeBaptist
William Lambert
Secret Order of The
Oppressed!
Note the
Southern routes
and the water
routes!
Nat’l Graphic
Society Maps
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-
slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/
George DeBaptist
William Lambert
Secret “Order of The
Oppressed!”
George DeBaptiste, ( c. 1815 – February 22, 1875)
was a prominent African-American conductor on
the Underground Railroad in southern Indiana
and Detroit, Michigan. “The man who prompted
the barber’s elaborate escape, who executed it,
who ensured that even if the fugitive’s party was
discovered it was carrying enough firepower to
defend itself”
In February 1840, DeBaptiste, abolitionist
Seymour Finney from New York, and William
Lambert arranged the noted rescue of Robert
Cromwell from a Detroit courthouse, where he
was being tried under fugitive slave law after
being recaptured by his captor.
Historians have estimated that DeBaptiste and
close collaborator William Lambert secured
passage of hundreds of Africans, of the
estimated 30,000 Africans who settled in Canada.
Underground Railroad, US Department of Interior, National Park Service,
Denver Service Center. DIANE Publishing, 1995, p168
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The Gun
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WHB Preparation
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Warrior Behind Enemy
Lines
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Fermenting the Civil War
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The Civil War (Building)
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Araminta The Healer
Brown had hopes that the local African
captive population would join the raid
and through the raid’s success weapons
would be supplied to slaves and
freedom fighters throughout the
country; this was not to be.
Jonathan Jackson & Soledad Brothers
Several months after the Civil War began in 1861, Governor
Andrew of Massachusetts – a passionate abolitionist –
recruited Tubman to join with Union forces occupying
Beaufort, SC, to provide support as a spy and scout. Upon her
arrival, she was provided a military pass, access to Secret
Service funds, established relationships with local Africans for
the collection of information, and rapidly recruited a team of
scouts who knew the region intimately. She was tasked in 1862
- 1863 with mapping the region and identifying Confederate
outposts and vulnerabilities, which bore fruit when a black
unit of Union soldiers – using intelligence provided by
Tubman – conducted successful raids throughout the region.
DUNEDIN
It was 1864 and the moon was full when the Maple Leaf steamed down the St.
Johns River carrying Union troops and equipment to Jacksonville. Lurking in the
murky waters below: a dozen mines or "torpedoes" made from wooden kegs filled
with 70 pounds of black powder.
When the transport vessel struck one, the explosion ripped apart the ship and killed
four soldiers. The vessel sank and with it thousands of artifacts to be preserved in a
muddy tomb for discovery 120 years later.
Dunedin Historical Museum
of a traveling exhibit called "The Maple Leaf: An American Civil War Shipwreck."
Don’t you think we Colored people are
entitled to some of the credit for that
exploit… We weakened the Rebels…
Took away 756 Africans, and nearly all of
them have joined the Colored regiments
here.
Purge
Falsehoods that
come out of the
abused self
God,
Clean Us
(Self-blame -A wound of oppression)
God,
Get Behind Me
Strenthen My
Blow
http://docsouth.unc.e
du/neh/harriet/menu
.html
To My Wife Alyse
This is the book you helped me to do - the one
that the white publishers would not issue. That is
because this is of the people that the white rulers
are slow to free. But free them they must or
conflicts like the present will go on until this
matter is settled right.
For your part with th elife of Harriet Tubman -
my gratatude. Earl
Carter G. Woodson
Publisher: The Associated Publishers, Inc.
1943
