Maryland created a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway several years ago to guide tourists through the route Tubman took to get away from that state and to freedom in the North and ultimately to Canada. The state hopes that the new film “Harriet” will stir interest in visiting the region. An interesting article in the Washington Post follows that trail.
According to the article:
The tour features historic sites “where one can step back in time,” said Liz Fitzsimmons, managing director of the Office of Tourism Development’s tourism and film division. A visitor can “sense what shaped Harriet Tubman to become a selfless crusader and real superhero — the stuff movies are made of.”
This low-lying land, swept by a breeze from the Atlantic Ocean, is called “Tubman Country.”
It is where Tubman walked, navigating the swamps and woods so thick people believed the forest had walls. It’s where she caught muskrats with bare hands. It’s where she escaped from slavery, before returning to save enslaved people from overseers.
