Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad

A Harriet Tubman picture book sat untouched on a shelf in Linda Harris’s home in Prince George’s County for nearly three decades, gathering dust.

Her father gave her the book — “Runaway Slave: The Story of Harriet Tubman” — when she was a child, to educate her about her African American heritage. She had a sudden desire to read it in May after George Floyd was killed in police custody during an arrest in Minneapolis.

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