Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom by Lois E. Horton

Author:Lois E. Horton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2018-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

In 1896 Tubman was the oldest person at the inaugural meeting of the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C. Rosetta Douglass Sprague, whose father, Frederick Douglass, had died the previous year, spoke on the first morning, placing Tubman in a pantheon with Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Garner, and Sojourner Truth. That evening at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Tubman received a long standing ovation, to which she responded with a short war story and a song. The following day Tubman acceded to requests for another musical performance and on the third day urged the gathering to support homes for the aged in black communities. Later that year she spoke at a Rochester, New York, meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Association chaired by Susan B. Anthony, where she gave a much longer rendition of her adventures escaping from slavery, rescuing others, and caring for wounded soldiers in the war. In 1897, the year Tubman was seventy-five, Boston suffragists held a benefit for her to celebrate a new edition of the Bradford biography. She was honored with a number of receptions in Boston, spoke at the Old South Meetinghouse, and received a silver version of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee medal and a letter from the queen, who had been impressed by her biography.177

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