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Category: Chronicling Resistance

Harriet Tubman prepares for her next rescue

December 19, 2025 Ken Johnston

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Posted in: African Ancestors, Canada, Chronicling Resistance, Eastern Shore, Maryland, Harriet Tubman Byway, Maryland, Resistance

Article: Juneteenth: How one Black Texas family’s fight for freedom on Juneteenth offers lessons for today’s lawmakers erasing history

August 29, 2024 Ken Johnston

This story on the afterlife of Juneteenth was recently shared with me by Frank Thompson, a native Texan, who completed…

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Posted in: Chronicling Resistance, Emancipation Day, Houston

Catoctin Furnace Freedom Seeker Ads

May 17, 2024 Ken Johnston

Less than 12.5 miles from the Pennsylvania border, men, women and children enslaved at Catoctin Furnance self-emancipated themselves when they…

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Posted in: African Ancestors, Catoctin Furnace, Chronicling Resistance, Frederick County, Freedom

Christmas Rescue Journey to Philadelphia

December 28, 2023 Ken Johnston

Harriet Tubman looked at her nails with a slight displeasure as she rubbed her hands together near the fireplace. She…

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Posted in: Christmas Eve, Chronicling Resistance, Foot Care, Harriet Tubman UGRR Byway, Philadelphia

Exhibit: Chronicling Resistance

January 7, 2023 Ken Johnston

In late spring of 2022, shortly after I completed a walk across Southern New Jersey following the Underground Railroad from…

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Posted in: Chronicling Resistance

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