{"id":87126,"date":"2019-12-03T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87126"},"modified":"2019-12-03T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T23:06:50","slug":"the-conversation-faith-made-harriet-tubman-fearless-as-she-rescued-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87126","title":{"rendered":"(The Conversation) Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/will-harriet-tubman-be-first-woman-20-bill-n357936\">voted<\/a> in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill. But many might not have known the story of her life as chronicled in a recent film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/31\/773403263\/in-earnest-contrived-biopic-harriet-tubman-is-an-action-hero\">Harriet<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/history.colostate.edu\/author\/rgudmstd\/\">historian of American slavery<\/a>, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/faith-made-harriet-tubman-fearless-as-she-rescued-slaves-127592\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/554NRwze25\">https:\/\/t.co\/554NRwze25<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/History?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ushistory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ushistory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N9MvjxXFVV\">pic.twitter.com\/N9MvjxXFVV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric G. E. Zuelow (@EZuelow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EZuelow\/status\/1201867143085805574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 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>Millions of people voted in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill. But many might not have known the story of her life as chronicled in a recent film, \u201cHarriet.\u201d Harriet<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87126\">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":[209,133,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87126","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=87126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87132,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87126\/revisions\/87132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}