On April 27, 1860, Harriet Tubman was in Trov, New York, when Charles Nalle, a freedom seeker from Virginia, was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act
Nalle had escaped slaverv and built a life in Trov, but the law still allowed him to be captured and sent back. When word spread that he had been taken, abolitionists and community members rushed to stop it.
Harriet Tubman was among them
She did not stand back and watch. She oined the crowd that fought to keep Nalle from being dragged back into slavery. The rescue turned into one of the boldest public freedom actions connected to the Underaround Railroad in New York
This was not the quiet version of Harriet Tubman that history sometimes tries ta package neatly. This was Tubman in motion,
risking herself in broad daylight, standing between a man and a system determined to steal him back.
Her courage was not svmbolic. It was physical. It was dangerous. It was real
On April 27, we remember Harriet Tubman not only as the woman who led people to freedom, but as the woman who showed up when freedom was being threatened right in front of her.
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