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Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial
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Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, NY
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A runaway slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad who was also called Moses by the people she helped free. Using the North Star as a guide, she led slaves all the way to Canada.
Harriet Tubman requires no introduction as the leader of the Underground Railroad that ferried many enslaved African Americans to freedom in non-slave-holding states and Canada. To honor her, a bronze sculpture, Swing Low, was created by artist Alison Saar and erected in 2008 amid a renovated triangle structure where West 122nd Street meets St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Harriet Tubman died in 1913 in Auburn, New York, but her Harlem statue is a testament to the neighborhood’s strong African American history and heritage.
Harriet Tubman requires no introduction as the leader of the Underground Railroad that ferried many enslaved African Americans to freedom in non-slave-holding states and Canada. To honor her, a bronze sculpture, Swing Low, was created by artist Alison Saar and erected in 2008 amid a renovated triang…