The latest from our Tubman200 project: JProfessor speaks with Tubman's descendants about her legacy. 'The public has no clue about who she really was as a person, as a member of our family.”
—was difficult precisely because of how chattel slavery ruptured family ties throughout its years of practice in this country. While Tubman rescued some of her siblings, she had already lost three sisters to the auction block, and she herself escaped from slavery before she was sold further South.
Tubman, of course, acted like many in her generation when she opened her home to extended family and community members , and she cared for both children and elders throughout her life. Her love of family compelled her to return to slavery to rescue others, and it propelled her in her later years to open a home for aged and indigent Black people in her community.
Her son, Alan G. Butler, Sr., also wishes he had known about his connection to Tubman at an earlier age since he learned about “Aunt Harriet” as a teenager. “My grandmother said it was too close to the time that we were set free,” Wyatt said. “She said that life was about surviving and going from day to day, and that’s what they chose to focus on and not on what happened before. So that was the end of that conversation. I didn’t go any further with it. I wish I had asked her more before she died!”
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