New Harriet Tubman Museum Open, Juneteenth, Cape May, New Jersey, Impt. Stop In Underground Railroad

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- CBS News Philly.
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- Harriet Tubman museum opens in Cape May on Juneteenth. Philly Voice, 6/20/21. -Ed. The Harriet Tubman museum officially opens its doors in Cape May on Juneteenth- the day commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S.- with a grand opening event at 11 a.m. Saturday. The museum, located in the Howell House, which served as the parsonage for the Macedonia Baptist Church, celebrates Tubman's life & her role in the underground railroad, as well as the abolitionist history in Cape May.

Cape May was an important stop in the Underground Railroad as the first foothold in the Northern states for enslaved people to flee to, NJ Monthly reported. Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland & worked as a cook & domestic laborer in Cape May in the early 1850's. There, historians say she helped 9 enslaved people escape...
https://www.phillyvoice.com/harriet-tubman-museum-opens-cape-may-juneteenth/
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- Harriet Tubman Museum of Cape May, https://www.harriettubmanmuseum.org/about

- Also, https://www.democraticunderground.com/11632064

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1. Can't wait to see those beautiful Harriet Tubman $20s - and soon

That portrait above is the best, for my money (no pun intended).

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2. Same here, much deserved tribute to

a remarkable African American woman, at last.

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3. Excellent, Tubman is a woman I have admired since I was a child and first heard of her

and her dangerous to her own life, work to save her fellow humans from bondage.

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4. A fearless woman with great strength & character.