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Tubman Travels

Stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and other people and events of the Underground Railroad on the Delmarva Peninsula–the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and Delaware.

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TUBMAN TRAVELS: Young Frederick Douglass in the Fight of His Life Tubman TravelsWay Back Machine

TUBMAN TRAVELS: Young Frederick Douglass in the Fight of His Life

This is an excerpt from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva. More info about the book is here. Standing in downtown St. Michaels today, with its tourist-friendly bevy of upscale shops and interesting eateries, it’s not easy to imagine the sort of place this town was when Frederick Douglass arrived from Baltimore in the early 1830s. Still known as Fred Bailey then, he…
July 28, 2017
TUBMAN TRAVELS: Love Comes in a Box Tubman TravelsWay Back Machine

TUBMAN TRAVELS: Love Comes in a Box

This story of Lear Green's escape from slavery is a free excerpt from my book, Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delamarva. More info about the book here. Before 1829, boats bound for Philadelphia from the Chesapeake Bay had to take the roundabout route, sailing down to the mouth of the Bay and then circling back up along the Atlantic Coast, into the Delaware…
July 27, 2017
“TUBMAN TRAVELS” EXCERPT: The Miraculous Escape of the Dover Eight Tubman TravelsWay Back Machine

“TUBMAN TRAVELS” EXCERPT: The Miraculous Escape of the Dover Eight

The story of the Dover Eight that follows is excerpted from Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva, a book by Secrets of the Eastern Shore that tells stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and many other men and women whose journeys in slavery and out of bondage went through the Eastern Shore and Delaware. BIG PICTURE: The Pressure Cooker of 1857 The lush…
March 1, 2017
Bucktown Village Store on Maryland's Eastern Shore
TUBMAN TALES: Young Harriet Goes Down to the Crossroads Tubman TravelsWay Back Machine

TUBMAN TALES: Young Harriet Goes Down to the Crossroads

This is an excerpt from my book, Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Adventures on Delmarva. The book tells keystone stories about the Underground Railroad, with each story attached to a place or places that you can go visit. More info about the book here. BIG PICTURE: God Works in Mysterious Ways This is the truism that will likely end up first and foremost in your mind on…
January 14, 2017