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It’s the centennial year of abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman’s death in 1913. Her Auburn, NY house, the home for the aged she founded on the property, and the museum attract considerable attention in upstate New York. We visited the Tubman historic site on the fifth day of our fall 2013 blogging tour of the “Cradle of the women’s rights movement in the US.”

We started with the new Sojourner Truth statue in the Hudson Valley to launch the blogging tour and went on to touch into Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s hometown in Johnstown; Matilda Joslyn Gage’s home in Fayetteville; and Seneca Falls where Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, plus other foremothers and forefathers, met at the 1848 women’s rights convention that sparked a social revolution.

On the morning of our fifth day on the road, we were the first visitors through the gate of the Harriet Tubman Home. The property’s serene and peaceful qualities speak eve Biography of barack obama early life!