The article found alongside the Harriet Tubman portrait was written using a racist style known as “plantation dialect.”
A Maryland tour organization unveiled a newly discovered photo of Harriet Tubman, this one from 1892, capturing the iconic abolitionist around age 70.
Harriet Tubman Tours owner Alex Green told The Citizen that the rare portrait is from an 1892 edition of The Household Magazine. It depicts Tubman in a decorative dark dress with a pinned-up hairstyle. The accompanying caption identifies her as “Harriet, the Modern Moses, now living in Auburn, N.Y.“
An article alongside the photo, which Green noted was written using a racist style called “plantation dialect,” features an extended Tubman quote about a traumatic incident as an enslaved teen in Dorchester County where she was struck in the head by a two-pound weight hurled at another enslaved person. The incident left her with a fractured skull, which caused lasting epilepsy and visions that Tubman believed opened deeper spiritual insights.