{"id":313,"date":"2009-06-03T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T01:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2010-06-16T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:12:09","slug":"interested-in-myths-about-harriet-tubman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/03\/interested-in-myths-about-harriet-tubman\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in myths about Harriet Tubman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/files\/images\/HD_tubmanHc.jpg\" alt=\"Tubman\" \/>In an interview available on House Divided&#8217;s YouTube channel, Kate Larson explains several myths surrounding the famous Underground Railroad conductor, Harriet Tubman. &#8220;The most important ones to talk about,&#8221; she explains &#8220;is the myth about returning to the south nineteen times and rescuing 300 people.&#8221; She further expounds that these myths developed from an early Tubman biography by Sarah Bradford. If interested in following the development of such a myth, Bradford&#8217;s book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=o4IEAAAAYAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet, the Moses of Her People<\/a>,&#8221; is available at the ever expanding Google Books, a great place resource for early Tubman historiography and myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview available on House Divided&#8217;s YouTube channel, Kate Larson explains several myths surrounding the famous Underground Railroad conductor, Harriet Tubman. &#8220;The most important ones to talk about,&#8221; she explains &#8220;is the myth about returning to the south nineteen times and rescuing 300 people.&#8221; She further expounds that these myths developed from an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,20],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-video","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}