From the Buffalo News:
Evidence that Harriet Tubman used a suspension bridge that once spanned the Niagara River has been around for 139 years.
In her own words, Tubman described one of her journeys through Niagara Falls to biographer Sarah Hopkins Bradford. It was Tubman’s seventh or eighth trek from Maryland to Canada to bring fugitive slaves to freedom.
As she crossed over the bridge into Canada with four companions, Tubman directed her fellow travelers to look upstream to the falls. The waters of the Niagara roared below them.
Bradford’s biographical “Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman” has been in print since 1869.
But the history has long been overshadowed in tourist exhibits that surround Niagara Falls.
Now, state and city officials are working to change that. A plan to create a museum in Niagara Falls dedicated to the
Underground Railroad moved forward this month and could soon get a permanent staff member.
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