They were eight strangers when they started, but two women brought them all together: a heroic figure who lived more than 150 years ago and a retired realtor who felt the power of the past more than ever today.
Linda Harris has been moved by the story of Harriet Tubman ever since her father gave her a biography of the Underground Railroad conductor when she was a child. Harris, 65, re-read the biography in May after the killing of George Floyd and she saw new and disturbing parallels, she says.
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