( The Hill ) — The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad.
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For years, the Parks’ page on the Underground Railroad featured a prominent photo of Tubman.
“The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page initially read.
Tubman, born into slavery in Maryland, escaped around 1849 after learning she and her brothers were to be sold. She would return to Maryland’s eastern shore more than a dozen times, leading many others to freedom and becoming perhaps the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad…