They had walked several miles that last Saturday in May when a woman dressed as Harriet Tubman approached.
She wore a long black skirt, a jacket with tattered sleeves, and a large black hat. She held a lantern in her right hand.
“Come on, keep a steady pace going,” Daisy Nelson Century, the Harriet Tubman interpreter, said. “We’re almost to the river. Come on, we’re almost to freedom land.”
