CAMBRIDGE, Md. - On the 176th anniversary of her first attempt to escape slavery, Harriet Tubman’s descendants joined state and local leaders Wednesday afternoon to unveil a new historical marker ...

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A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) After Pennsylvania passed the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery on March 1, ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. After Pennsylvania passed the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery on March 1, 1780, ...