{"id":86233,"date":"2019-11-06T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86233"},"modified":"2019-11-05T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:00:27","slug":"ct-the-new-harriet-biopic-is-faithful-to-tubmans-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86233","title":{"rendered":"(CT) The New \u2018Harriet\u2019 Biopic Is Faithful to Tubman\u2019s Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">Harriet Tubman is one of America\u2019s most iconic figures, as evidenced by the proposed (and still delayed) <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/14\/us\/politics\/harriet-tubman-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harriet Tubman 20-dollar bill<\/a> and the new biopic <span class=\"citation\"><a class=\"citation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.focusfeatures.com\/harriet\/cast-and-crew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harriet<\/a><\/span><em>, <\/em>produced by Focus Features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">After she escaped slavery in 1849, Tubman worked as the only female conductor on the Underground Railroad, assisting escapees along a short route through free states. She was one of the few who at great risk entered slave-holding states to extract slaves and lead them north to freedom. Nicknamed \u201cMoses\u201d by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, very few knew Harriet\u2019s real identity; most assumed a man was making these voyages. Tubman also served in the US army as a nurse, advisor, scout, and spy. Her greatest feat in the service was leading the charge that freed over 750 slaves in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The film, which covers her life from 1849 to 1864, releases nationwide this weekend. Jenny McGill spoke recently with Kate Clifford Larson, author of <span class=\"citation\"><a class=\"citation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bound-Promised-Land-Portrait-American\/dp\/0345456289\/?tag=christtoday-20\">Bound for the Promised Land<\/a>: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero<\/span>, about the historical accuracy of the film, Tubman\u2019s deep Christian faith, and the African American spirituals that were key to her rescue missions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/october-web-only\/harriet-tubman-movie-faithful-to-her-faith.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Harriet Tubman&#8217;s biographer on the Christian faith that inspired her courageousness:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her faith sustained her through her darkest hours of fear, hopelessness, and loneliness&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UMhFB1YbZI\">https:\/\/t.co\/UMhFB1YbZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1190086066000289793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Tubman is one of America\u2019s most iconic figures, as evidenced by the proposed (and still delayed) Harriet Tubman 20-dollar bill and the new biopic Harriet, produced by Focus Features. After she escaped slavery in 1849, Tubman worked as the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86233\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,186,93,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-movies-television","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86238,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86233\/revisions\/86238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}