South End in Boston in Suffolk County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)
Step on Board
Harriet Ross Tubman
— 1820 - 1913 —
Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 27, 2023
1. Step on Board Marker
Inscription.
Step on Board. Harriet Ross Tubman.
Go down Moses, way down in Egypt's land, Tell old Pharoah , Let my people go. Maryland --- Delaware -- Philadelphia -- New York City -- Albany --- Syracuse ---- Rochester ---- Canada ★,
There are two things I've got a right to, and these are death or liberty. One or another I mean to have. No one will take me back alive. Harriet Tubman, The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Frederick Douglass, Tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along to be ready to step aboard. Harriet Tubman, She expected deliverance when she prayed, unless the Lord had ordered otherwise. Sarah Bradford
Station Masters Frederick Douglas Rochester - Jermain Logan Albany - Gerrit Smith New York City - David Rugales, Oliver Johnson Philadelphia - William Still Delaware - Thomas Garret,
Humanity weeping over her suddenly freed children, who beneath the gnarled fingers of Fate, step forth into the world unafraid. Meta Warrick Fuller,
The Negro has been emancipated from slavery but not from the curse of race hatred and prejudice....It was not Lincoln alone who wrote the Emancipation but the humane side of the nation.. Meta Warrick Fuller
Emancipation, 1913 , In honor of African American freed persons who by their courage and valor gave meaning to emancipation.
Meta Vaus Warrick Fuller, (1877-1968) sculptor. Courtesy of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the Museum of Afro-American History
Go down Moses, way down in Egypt's land,
Tell old Pharoah — Let my people go
Maryland --- Delaware -- Philadelphia -- New York City -- Albany --- Syracuse ---- Rochester ---- Canada ★
There are two things I've got a right to, and these are death or liberty. One or another I mean to have. No one will take me back alive.
Harriet Tubman
The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism.
Frederick Douglass
Tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along to be ready to step aboard.
Harriet Tubman
She expected deliverance when she prayed, unless the Lord had ordered otherwise.
Sarah Bradford
Station Masters
Frederick Douglas Rochester - Jermain Logan Albany - Gerrit Smith New York City - David Rugales, Oliver Johnson Philadelphia - William Still Delaware - Thomas Garret
Humanity weeping over her suddenly
freed children,
who beneath the gnarled fingers
of Fate, step forth into the
world unafraid
Meta Warrick
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Fuller
The Negro has been emancipated
from slavery but not from the curse
of race hatred and prejudice....It was
not Lincoln alone who wrote the
Emancipation but the humane side of
the nation.
Meta Warrick Fuller
Emancipation, 1913 — In honor of African American freed persons who by their courage and valor gave meaning to emancipation.
Meta Vaus Warrick Fuller, (1877-1968) sculptor
Courtesy of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the Museum of Afro-American History
Location. 42° 20.6′ N, 71° 4.69′ W. Marker is in Boston, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County. It is in South End. Marker is at the intersection of Columbus Avenue (Massachusetts Route 28) and Columbus Square, on the right when traveling north on Columbus Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 467 Columbus Ave, Boston MA 02118, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 27, 2023
3. Step on Board Marker
Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 27, 2023
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Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 27, 2023
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Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), January 27, 2023
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Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on January 29, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 78 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on January 29, 2023, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
