harriet tubman was illiterate. so she had a letter written to jacob jackson who lived in dorchester county. he owned 480 acres of land. he's illiterate man, and he was a veterinarian. she had arranged a code beforehand and so when the letter was written it said read my letter to the old folks and give my love to them and tell my brothers to always be watching under prayer and when the good old ship is on comes along be ready to step aboard. so the song you're hearing right now is the good old ship as i am. so when jacob jackson saw that in the letter he knew that it was harriet tubman telling him to beat to notify her. to be ready that she was going to come back and rescue them. no, jacob jackson was a known operative on the underground railroad. so he wasn't permitted to read his mail. so it was very important to have this encoded message. so the postmaster as well as a few other people had to read his mail before mr. jackson could so they read it. it made no sense and when he picked it up and he looked at it. he

this scene right here shows a young harriet tubman taking care of her little brother moses. o very young tubman, about four years old if not younger how to take care of her little brother. but her mother worked in the big house and tubman has fond memories of this, but i can't imagine the worry of a mother knowing that her baby was taking care of her other baby. tubman told the story of how the baby was worrying as she told the crying, so she got a slab of pork and she warmed it in the fire and the baby stop crying. so when the mother came back, she saw the piece of pork hanging out and thought that young -- had killed a baby but it was indeed just a piece of pork. and i think that's a funny story because if you put a piece of bacon in my mouth, i'd stop talking to. this next section here talks about comments early life and the quote says, every time i saw a white man i was afraid of being carried away. i had two sisters carried away in a chain gang one of them left to children. we were always uneasy. so this highlights the fact that they were sold away to a changing endeavor

you're harriet tubman. and he was probably in his mid-20s and i said, yes, i do present this harriet tubman. he said i remember you coming to my school when i was in the seventh grade and i think i could have levitated across the street because i think when with presentations they are well done people tend to remember adults and children alike. i think it sticks and so i support your support a first person reenactment catherine. thank you so much and thank you to manisha. that's great. thank you all for this wonderful discussion and actually the first question. i want to throw out to catherine harris. this comes from our chairman harold holzer and he asked how did you first decide to portray harriet tubman? and what sources did you use at the time to begin to put together your portrayal? i'll try to make this brief because it is a long secure to story but i had presented phoebe floorville. who was the wife of mr. lincoln's barber billy the barber at our sangamon county historical society and he was the head

welcome to harriet tubman underground railroad state park. my name is ranger crenshaw and here we highlight harriet tubman's early years. she was born not three miles east of here in the town of madison and then she spent a lot of time in this area as well as in bucktown a few miles west of here. it was here in this area of dorchester county that she learned this skills that were vital to make her a successful conductor on

and here we highlight harriet tubman's early years. she was born not three miles east of here in the town of madison and then she spent a lot of time in this area as well as in bucktown a few miles west of here. it was here in this area of dorchester county that she learned this skills that were vital to make her a successful conductor on the underground railroad. this shows harriet tubman at a very young age checking muskrat traps muskraps are rodents that are common in this area most musket traps were checked in the late fall or early winter when they're pelts were the thickest they were caught for their pelt. so this shows harriet tubman and the muskrat and you can see she's ankle deep in water. she's not wearing any shoes. she's not wearing a hat and she's wearing rag. she's absolutely miserable. i'm a quote says i used to sleep on the floor and cry and cry and cry if i could only get home and get in my mother's bed. so that drive. go home and be with her family members with was within young tubman from a very very early age. and t

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. >>> a rote of the bart station will soon tout harriet tubman's name. it is part of the new department called gateway at millbrae station. harriet tubman will replace south station road. it is expected to be complete by next year. they collaborated to bring about the change during black history month. >>> still ahead on kpix5, and streaming on cbsn bay area. >> what this means to helping ha, upport, there help thousands of east bay families in need. >>> climate scientists sounding the alarm. the steps they say we need to take before the planet undergoes irreversible losses. >>> it is been windy out there today, we are going to talk about the wind speed, who still has a wind advisory out there, and then we are going to look ahead to see when we might finally get another chance at rain. it is february going into early march, after all. details on that, coming dehu ofunpitcin to give out olkl all in on teive. organizer say it was heartwarming to see so many people pitch in to help. >> what this really means to people is just that there is support. there is

be finall happening in one way because "the biden administration has revived the effort to put harriet tubmans sense that biden would be all about a tubman 20. ( aviators ) "i'm a big fan of railroads, wherever they are! underground railroad's the black acela! choo choo! all aboard! next stop: equality junction! come on! jump on the track, jack!" this is long overdue, on being long overdue, because the obama administration had announcedonir secretary, and the last man i thought i'd be mentioning in a black history month segment, steve mnuchin. mnuchin gave some weak technical excuse for why he put a stop to it. but at least he had the courtesy to say he also didn't care. "right now, we've got a lot more important issues to focus on. people have been on the bills for a long period of time." and if something has been happening for a long time, it should, obviously, stay that way. it's why i instruct my barber to only use the finest leeches to balance my humors while i snack on lead paint chips with my cocaine-flavored cola. mnuch also delayed redesigning the $20 bill in order to redesign the $1

and you see the story of harriet tubman.you know harriet tubman from the underground railroad, but she served as a union spy. and then you see susan king taylor who was not only a nurse, but she opened up her own hospital. so as we go forward and look at the artifacts that speak to freedom during the period of emancipation. so how do you tell the whole population of people, that they are now free? in fact those seeing men, that frederick douglass fought for to ensure they were able to fight for freedom on the battlefield, were responsible for carrying things such as this. this is an important tiny but powerful, handheld emancipation proclamation. that carried icky this they carried this from plantation to plantation, and told men women and children, they were no longer enslaved. so what did that mean at this point in time? while the space we're in right now, it's actually quite powerful. directly behind me, you will see that legislation that started with the declaration of independence constitution and the bill of rights, an

welcome to harriet tubman underground railroad state park. my name is ranger crenshaw and here we highlight harriet tubman's early years. she was born not three miles east of here in

. >>> a street alongside the millbrae bart station is being renamed in honor of harriet tubman.between the station and a new transit-oriented development project that is now under construction will soon be called harriet tubman way. in addition, a plaza will feature an art installation in honor of the abolitionist. >> this is going to be a representation of the many diverse members of the world and eastbound local community that come and will be able to experience the legacy of harriet tubman. >> that name change is a joint effort between bart, the naacp of san mateo and developer republic urban properties. >>> san francisco's legendary poet and artist lawrence ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101 of lung disease. few poets of the past 60 years are as well-known or as influential. his books sold more than a million copies worldwide. he moved to san francisco from new york in 1951, and two years later cofounded citylights bookstore with a handshake and $500 at the corner of broadway and columbus. it became a home to writers and poets. >> he always liked to say that people need

the one i get the most, the one i have gotten five times this year is that i look like harriet tubman why do i think of emancipation every time i look at them? [ laughter ] and i explained it to him, and he felt seen and i felt deeply hurt it's frustrating for a lot of reasons. one, because when people are thinking of harriet tubman, they're thinking of an illustration an illustration of an 80-year-old woman. [ laughter ] and it's like i know i look tired, i know, i know. but is this the type of exhaustion that could only come from picking cotton in a field [ laughter ] is that -- is that what my face is [ light laughter ] people are like, "come on, kenice, no, it's the glasses, it's the glasses." it's like, oh, okay, it's -- it's just that harriet tubman didn't wear glasses. [ laughter ] what would she need them for all that reading she couldn't do [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: kenice mobley. for more info go to kenicemobley.com more "tonight show" when we come back. come on back [ cheers and applause ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of do

at one point, harriet tubman led 300 black soldiers in a raid on southern plantations.st have been. that's actually when they invented black face. they put it on and said,"yeah, go get those slave owners." another black spy is james wormly jones who in 1919 became the f.b.i.'s first documented black special agent. in 1922, jones infiltrated a black nationalist organization led by marcus garvey and helped get marcus garvey convicted of mail fraud. so jones didn't just break barriers for black people in intelligence. he also used that intelligence to put black people behind barriers. he was the original tokashia 6-9. he spied on black people. but black folk didn't just spy for the u.s. government. there were also spies like josephine baker, who moved to france in the 1920s, where she became a world-famous singer. when the nazis invaded france in world war ii, baker smuggled secretes messages and maps for the french resistance. when she heard something valuable, she would write it down, pin the note to her underwear, and relay the information back to paris. and that's hard

harriet tubman was that woman. she was general moses and she told slaves that it was not going to be their task to stop along the railroad. they were going to get to their destination and i guess she was a little harsh, dead or alive. that is the push of the congressional black caucus. we're not violent people, so i won't say dead or alive, but we are consistently engaged in pushing the envelope, pushing the margins, pushing the conscience of this congress, led certainly over a huge number of years by the late john robert lewis. john conyers, who headed the judiciary committee and fought against every civil rights injustice. so many leaders. as i indicated, shirley chisholm who ran for the presidency. barbara jordan who sat on the impeachment committee as a young member and said, we the people, and she denied any right of anyone to undermine the constitution. her voice was strong and powerful, glad to call her my mentor and my predecessor. and so i just want so i just want to give these words, congressman torres. i

the harriet tubman proposal for the $20 bill was announced in 2016, from the obama administration, and purposely delayed by the last administration. harriet tubman, born in 1822 as a slave, later escaped slavery and is recognized as a symbol of freedom and as a revolutionary historical figure for her brave acts of freeing people from their enslavement. from underground railroads to serving as the first woman to lead an armed exhibition in the more than civil war, to leading the combining ferry raid, harriet tubman freed over 800 slaves. it is about time that we recognized the bravery to stand up against racism and slavery that harriet tubman carried by honoring her legacy on the u.s. currency. the third resolution is support of ab328. the housing program. and this is along with supervisors mandelman, ronen, melgar, stefani, chan and mar. we are introducing a resolution in support of ab328, authored by our very own assembly member david chu to establish the re-entry housing program by repurposing funding from the closure of state prisons. studies have shown that people on parole are sev

the same is true for harriet tubman. saw herself as on a mission guided and protected by god himself. rooted in her biblical faith, she has the courage to go back into the south after escaping from slavery, she goes back into the south to free 300 other enslaved people on 19 trips. the power of religious freedom being exercised and in action. but that's not the only exodus event in the history of the black church. think about the civil rights movement, an exodus from disenfranchisement and terror in the southern united states into full citizenship, and in the words of reverend dr. martin luther king, there is nothing greater in the world than freedom. i would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with lack of self-respect. for him, religious freedom was expressed in all of the work of the civil rights movement. we were talking about this earlier today, the fact that the importance of king's faith in his role in the civil rights movement, the importance of the church, the black ch

first phyllis wheatley, a slave who published a book of poetry others include trailblazers like harriet tubman, research scientist jane hinton, icon and educator shirley chisholm, the first black woman elected to the united states congress ava's learning about athletes, too. even entertainers and artists. >> i wanted her to just see that black women have done a lot of things, they've accomplished amazing things in every field, and that just helps her know that she can do and be anything. >> reporter: the project a hit on social media with fans writing "this is a historic moment" and "wonderful, informative. even "this made me cry." it's inspiring for 11-year-old ava too as she looks to the future what do you think you want to do when you grow up >> i really, really want to be a singer and an actress. and i think i'm kind of funny and i want to be a comedian. i also want to be an author. >> reporter: the contributions of so many creating unlimited possibilities thanks to these unique lessons >> it's a celebration. >> i kamala devi harris. >> she can also see people who have persevered through a

on this day in 1978 harriet tubman was the first black woman honored on a stamp, the abolitionist helpingofree slaves as par the of the underground rail road in the stamp black history series the put pulitzer prize winner play write august wilson will be honored as well with a stamp. >>> 18 years later a look at the space shuttle columbia disaster after that rocked the nation lit. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. or high blood potassium. ever notice how stiff clothes can feel rough on your skin? for softer clothes that are gentle on your skin, try downy free & gentle. downy will soften your clothes without dyes or perfumes. the towel washed with downy is softer, and gentler on your skin. try downy free & gentle. ♪♪ would you like to try a breakfa

influent black woman one of the first, one who wrote a book of poetry and other trail blazers like harriet tubmanning about athletes, entertainers and artists. >> i wanted her to see that black women have done a lot of things, they've accomplished amazing things in every field, that just helps her know she can do and be anything. >> the project is a hit on social media with fans writing this is a historic moment, and wonderful, informative, even, this made me cry it's inspiring for 11-year-old ava too as she looks to the future. >> what do you think you want to do when you grow up? >> i really, really want to be a singer and actress and i think i'm kind of funny and i want to be a comedian. i also want the to be an author. >> the contributions of so many creating unlimited possibilities thanks to these unique lessons. >>> it's a celebration kamala harris she can also see people who persevered through america's past and even current times in america and she can see that it is possible to be who she wants to be. >> our thanks for that history is always more impactful when it is interactive. >> yeah

except for harriet tubman in black history month.ne of the things was i had not heard of anna wells bar net, who had done the anti-lynching crusade. i got out of the college in 1966. even though i grew up, knowing the church family, in memphis and would visit relatives, of the church family. i had never heard of--. until i got out of college. so, i learned black women's history, not as an undergraduate, but ironically at spellman college, i learned all on my own, when i was working on my doctorate in university. and that is way late in my profession. >> well. yes. and i have to say, the difference it makes to know this history. because i take learning about fearless weekly, as a child. and i have that seen in my head. you almost have to see it to believe it, that you too can aspire to do whatever these trail blazers did. so, who were your role models growing up who are your female role models? anita? >> my female role models were, the people in my community. women in my community. my mother's close friends. who we all called by their

in fact, john brown was far less successful than harriet tubman in freeing slaves. john brown wants to start the war the war doesn't start and further than no slaves take up his offer to you know, rise up against their masters because they realize this probably a suicide mission. so lincoln thinks first of all that people like john brown band in actions like the rate and harper's ferry slaves in the short run, but they're bad for the slaves in the long run too they would cause southerners to basically to to circle the wagons and to resist any idea any arguments that it might be in their own self-interest and slavery. now. this was lincoln's. hope this this was what lincoln held out lincoln believed that slavery would end when southern slaveholders concluded that it was no longer in their interest to maintain slavery now, you might think many people at the time thought. oh boy, you know, this is a long shot but lincoln could point to this states of the north who at one time had allowed slavery and they changed their minds because lincoln did believe that economies mo

and or storytellers who impersonates harriet tubman i feel like i never get the the term reenactor is never utilized. does that come into play when you're dealing with an individual as opposed to a generic american i wonder you know, another's i know someone who's a sally hemings impersonator. i didn't maybe we've talked about this where she does like you can work out with sally and she'll share with you her observations of thomas jefferson and her critique of temporary. you can work out with her. yes, so she'll go and do workout in the gym with you dressed as hell. why it's an interesting. it's an interest out. it's not my thing. i don't do this. so. then how do you know so much about it? she's a friend of mine. so i'll share that with you, but it's an interesting thing, right? so confounding perceptions of you know, people being a certain way at a certain period of time and trying to kind of expand that as you know, constants and humanity. anyhow, i'm just curious are there boundaries between living historians and reenactors and impersonators again my interpretation of this. yes,

you'll also see the story of harriet tubman. she also served as a union spy.d finally you'll see the story of susie king taylor who not only served as the nurse but ultimately opened up her own hospital. so why don't we go forward and look at some of the artifacts that really speak to freedom during the period of emancipation. how do you tell a whole population of people that they are now free? in fact, those same men that frederick douglass fought for to ensure that they were able to fight for freedom on the battlefield were responsible for carrying things such as this, this very important tiny but powerful handheld emancipation proclamation. they carried a handheld proclamation from plantation to plantation and told men, women, and children they were no longer enslaved. what did that mean at this point in time? the space that we're in right now is actually quite powerful. directly behind me you'll see that legislation that started with the declaration of independence, constitution, and bill of rights and carries all the way through the exhibition till you co

if we think we are immune from those primitive ideas and why is there no harriet tubman $20 bill, and why, their product the sacajawea dollar but we didn't circulated. we will not circulate that. clearly my knees gender -- money gender -- when queen victoria died in the 19 century many english merchants refuse to accept coins with a face on it because it was dead money. >> fascinating. you're talking a little bit about the soul of money early in the book and then i want to get into talk about what the future of money looks like. we talked about the past which is a first half of the book, and second half of the book you concentrate a little more on the future. let's finish up talking about the past. anything else you wanted to cover there? >> i spent a lot of time, i think kind of a key hinge between the past and the future is of course the quote-unquote load, the float of the dollar in 1971 which is what richard nixon did with his secretary treasury john connolly when the dollar since it was created back in the last decade of the 18th century, had always in some way, shape, or form wi

images of harriet tubman and significant images of the call for men and women to join the war by frederick douglass. so here as i move forward and considering our time looking at the posing of the experience of the quiet moment of going into the studio here is colonel shawl who's head of the 54 and we know before he left that he is. pose considering the next steps and he says we have gone quietly along forming the regiment as you prepares for the war and how long it takes to get to south carolina. it's a prepare for the war. this is an album in the smithsonian and we see that it's part of the gift of the garrison family the memory of george thompson garrison, and this is an album and as i mentioned before how the soldiers also entered in studios the captains and and other servicemen created albums of the people in their camps and here this is the outside of the album. the album is bound and gold leather in terms of the gold leads clap class, but we see the power of images and they're they're compelled to tell me the stories to push forward to tell the story of from william carney with his

we think we are immune from those primitive ideas and why is there no harriet tubman 20-dollar bill? and they brought the sacajawea dollar but we did not circulated. were not going to circulate that. clearly monday is gender still has a meaning to us. when queen victoria died in the 19th century, many english merchants refused to accept coins with their face on because it was quote unquote dead money. >> fascinating. you are talking a little bit earlier in the book. then i want to get in to talk about the future of money looks like. the first half of the book, the second half you concentrate a little bit more on the future. so let's finish up talking about the past. anything you want to cover there? >> i spent a lot of time i think the key lock or hinge between the past and the future is of course the float of the dollar in 1971. which is what richard nixon did with the secretary-treasurer john connolly. when the dollar since it was created back in the last decade of the 18th century, had always in some way shape or form with very few exceptions had this thing called the underlying v

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professor at rutgers university, talks about her book, "she came toslay" on the life and exploits of harriet tubman. >> we know that she made at least 13 trips to and from the eastern shore of maryland. that's one thing that people either don't know or are confused. tubman was not running all over the south emancipating people. she made specific, targeted trips to the state of maryland to rescue her family and her friends. we know that she touched the lives of many, basically emancipated at least 60 to 70 people on at least 13 trips. >> erica armstrong dunbar sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a.." the white house covid response team announced plans to distribute masks to food banks and community health centers in an effort to help underserved communities combat the virus. response coordinator also spoke about plans for distributing the latest johnson & johnson vaccine once it is approved for emergency use by the fda. this runs 35 minutes. >> by acknowledging that we have passed a grim milestone in this pandemic, half a million people debt from covid-19. this pandemic has touched each of us

tubman. >> harriet, so good to see you., lock the door. >> you are sure a welcome sight. >> this is my friend from england. >> i am so honored, i have heard so much about you. even in england, your work is known. >> i am just an old lady that likes doing a lot of walking in the great outdoors. [laughter] most times at night. [laughter] >> and she is fond of bloodhounds. [laughter] >> wherever i go, i hear folks talking about john brown. >> they said you freed over 100 slaves. >> several hundred. we escaped just ahead of the, shall we say, posse. my words are for your ears. >> what do you mean by that? >> i intend to seize office. -- harpers ferry. i want you at my side. >> seize the town? >> yes. first we will capture the army arsenal. then we will hold their leading citizens hostage until they free the slaves. >> you can't fight the entire united states army alone. you and your men are overwhelmingly outnumbered. they will annihilate you. >> it will force the people to take action against this terrible institution. >> john

the harriet tubman proposal for the $20 bill was announced in 2016 from the obama administration, and purposely delayed by the last administration. harriet tubman born in 1822 as a slave later escaped slavery and is recognized as a symbol of freedom and as a revolutionary historical figure for her brave acts of freeing people from their enslavement. from underground railroads to serving as the first woman to lead an armed exhibition in the more than civil war to leading the combining ferry raid harriet tubman freed over 800 slaves. it is about time that we recognized the bravery to stand up against racism and slavery that harriet tubman carried by honoring her legacy on the u.s. currency. the third resolution is support of ab328. the housing program. and this is along with supervisors mandelman, ronen, melgar stefani chan and mar. we are introducing a resolution in support of ab328 authored by our very own assembly member david chu to establish the re-entry housing program by repurposing funding from the closure of state prisons. studies have shown that people on parole are seven time

according to a new poll, nearly 20% of americans oppose putting harriet tubman on the new $20 bill though it if the government sent 100 of them. myanmar's military announced today that it has seized power from the democratically-elected government in response to election fraud wow, that's the kind of thing you usually only hear about in first world countries. new york governor andrew cuomo announced on friday that weddings of up to 150 people will be permitted beginning in march. so now you can catch the bouquet and two variants a man in idaho over the weekend won the lottery for the sixth time which sounds kind of suspicious honestly i mean, you win the lottery once, you leave idaho. relax, idaho just take it easy. there's a snow blizzard in new york we're in a bad mood. it makes us feel better to [ bleep ] on other places. just enjoy your beautiful landscapes, idaho. there's a foot of snow here and the rats are making snow angels. [ laughter ] that's right, a man in idaho won the lottery for the sixth time unfortunately, on the way to collect his winnings, he was struck by lightning for

the lincoln forum hosted discussion with scholars catherine clinton and manisha sinha about harriet tubman's life and legacy along with a performance by tubman interpreter catherine harris. can't garrett and gene ellsworth are with us today courtesy of tom and margaret morse. mr. garrett graduated from harvard in 1963 he has had a 30-year emmy and peabody award-winning career in television news and documentaries. jean ellsworth has a phd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from elementary school to prisons to universities. the authors live in roxbury, new york please give a warm savannah. welcome to kent garrett and jean ellsworth. well, thank you for inviting us and well, as you know, the book is called the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroses, and that's what we recall then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. we were from all different parts of the country north south east and west and we came from different economic and socio-economic backgrounds and we her

there is harriet tubman, frederick douglass, and the new jump to rosa parks and martin luther king.can history. now, where i sit and i know that 4 million people received their freedom or took their freedom, or were granted their freedom stole their freedom in 1865. and even before that moment, there's so many stories that we can understand about survival, about resilience, about pride, and about the african-american experience in the united states. that goes beyond those four great figures. teaching texas slavery is a digital humanities project that i've been working on with a team of scholars for a number of years. it is a way to teach young children about the contributions of african-americans to look at them in their eyes to understand the humanity of the enslaved and their contribuons to the state of texas. in my work, i try to honor the voices and experience that people who were enslaved, because for so long in the hiorical literature, nobody asked them about how they experienced slavery. they talked about enslaved people by making them objects. these were human beings. for me

the supervising curator at the harriet tubman museum. clay and his team at the library are currently in the final stages of completely redoing their entire permanent exhibit. so welcome clay, i know that you are not think of things with your project, where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening day for the new permanent exhibit? >> well, we are probably within two months of having the exhibits done and ready to open. the big question of course, with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. so, we're not really sure about that but the actual work on our permanent exhibits is we're probably within two months are being done with it. >> so the exhibits are being installed as we speak? >> yes. all of the, essentially all of the general construction in our museum -- we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. that included installing all new walls in the exhibit areas, we actually constructed a 3500 square foot addition to the building,

talks about her book on the life and exploits of underground river conductor and unions by a harriet tubman>> we know she made at least 13 trips to and from the eastern shores of maryland. there is one thing people do not know or confused. tubman was not running all over the south emancipating people. she made specific targeted trips to the state of maryland to rescue her family and her friends, so we know that she touched the lives and basically emancipated at least 60 to 70 people on at least 13 trips. announcer: erica armstrong dunbar sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a.

tubman! >> harriet! >> so good to see you. >> frederick! you are sure a welcome sight. >> harriet, this is my friend, she's been helping with finances. >> i am so honored, mrs. tubman. i've heard so much about you. and in england, your work is known. >> i am just an old lady that loves to do a lot of walking in the great outdoors. [laughs] most times at night! [laughs] >> and she is fond of bloodhounds too. >> wherever i go, i hear folks talking about john brown. >> mr. brown, we are indebted to your needs of kindness. they say you freed over 100 slaves. >> we escaped just ahead of the, shall we say, posse. >> douglass, my words are for your ears only. >> what do you mean by that? >> i intend to seize -- i want you at my side. >> sees the town? >> yes, first we will capture the army, and then we will hold citizens hostage. >> don't you see you can't the entire united states army alone? you and your men are overwhelmingly outnumbered they will annihilate you. >> it's special. it will force the people to take action against this terrible inst