Ransome, will read aloud Friday, July 5, from their children’s book, “Before She Was Harriet,” at the 2 p.m. unveiling of the “Beacon of Hope,” the nationally recognized sculpture of ...

Harriet was actively involved with the abolition movement before the launch of the Civil War. During the war she used her celebrity to raise money for black refugees. After the war she worked to ...

She had been digging at the site where Harriet Tubman, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, is believed to have lived with her parents in the years before she escaped enslavement and ...