Tracing Harriet Tubman’s Steps

I traversed her journey to freedom in order to make sense of both the past and present

Photos courtesy of the author.

In the summer of 2017 I found myself in the Bucktown Village Store in Maryland, the same store where Harriet Tubman almost died. The history goes that when asked to help restrain an enslaved man resisting his overseer, Tubman refused. The overseer then threw a…