“I believe that Harriet Tubman, as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and general expert on the social technology of liberation, understood and used this cosmos that includes Black people and freedom.”
is but one example of how Polaris entered into Black liberation narratives. In 1928, the Texas Folklore Society published “,” an African American folk song transcribed by Harris Braley Parks during his travels through the south in the 1910s. As part of the publication, Parks shared the story of Peg Leg Joe, who purportedly traveled from plantation to plantation with the covert purpose of using the song to teach enslaved people how to self-liberate.
The printed archive is typically white supremacist. By this I mean that what has been saved for posterity skews toward that which is meaningful to what white men, especially those who are propertied, have determined is worth preserving. Our ancestors’ histories are mostly saved as physical descriptors on financial ledgers—what Katherine McKittrick has referred to as “”—leaving Black historians to carefully read between the lines and through silences.
The archive may suggest to us that Black oral histories about—and attachment to—a cosmic freedom guide star are more wishful thinking than reality. But Bibb provides first-person evidence that at least one person used Polaris in exactly the manner that has been passed down through generations of Black Americans remembering their multigenerational sojourns through American white supremacy.
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