Harriet Tubman was a force to be reckoned with

Chatham-Kent Kiwanis members had a look back into the history of the underground railroad this week when Dorothy Wright- Wallace, president of the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society, appeared as Harriet Tubman. Tubman, born a slave, Araminta Ross later adopted her mother’s first name, Harriet. From early childhood she worked variously as a maid, a nurse, a field hand, a cook, and a woodcutter. About 1844 she married John Tubman, a free black.

In 1849, on the strength of rumours that she was about to be sold, Tubman fled to Philadelphia, leaving behind her husband, parents, and siblings.