Ahead of tonight's premier of Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom on PBS, JProfessor spoke with producer Nicole London:
Right. And who would’ve thought there would be a debate about should or should she not be on our money? Not just amongst, obviously, the detractors, but even among people who do the work of keeping her name alive.
The fact that her husband was free was crazy to learn. That’s just the realities of slavery in Maryland. That half of the Black population was free, half was enslaved, and they could intermarry and have children. That kind of close relationship I’d never thought about or considered. Harriet in particular obviously would try sometimes to move through the day, but she especially tried to work at night and in winter because the nights were longer. Thinking about this, of course that makes perfect sense, but it’s never been told in any story, any film, as that would just highlight too much of her intelligence. You know what I mean?Absolutely! We don’t often think of the real intelligence it took for her to do what she did.That’s what’s especially heroic about it.
Her story was really well-documented. And that’s all the more disgraceful about how much we still don’t know about her story.Don’t you find it interesting that, despite this, Harriet Tubman is still the most well-known of all the Black women in our history?That is really interesting. But her story supersedes her, even when it’s wrong. Her story and her name supersede any of the myths about her or any of the facts about her. Even when we know nothing about Harriet Tubman, we all know her name..
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