A statue of Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman is now on display in Lake Placid. The 13-foot-tall bronze statue by sculptor Wesley Wofford depicts Tubman stepping on the shackles of slavery.

A statue of Harriet Tubman was installed at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid earlier this week and will be unveiled at 2 pm on Friday. Tubman helped dozens of Black people escape slavery. During her ...

Enshrined in bronze, Harriet Tubman looks forth with determination as she steps across the Pennsylvania state line. Behind her, a fearful young girl her holds tightly onto Tubman’s arm, the shackles ...

BASTROP — The statue was 2,400 pounds of heavy truth cast in bronze. This was slavery — the fear on the face of an 8-year-old girl, the open shackles near her feet — but also the courage to defeat it, ...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Museum welcomed a traveling Harriet Tubman monument to their center on Wednesday, October 16. It is a 13-foot bronze statue called "Beacon ...

On Friday afternoon, Binghamton University unveiled a new statue honoring Harriet Tubman. The statue was created by sculptor Zoe Dufour, who was chosen to create the project just over a year ago. The ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- A statue honoring Harriet Tubman, a pioneer of the underground railroad who led thousands of slaves to freedom, was unveiled in downtown Binghamton following a lengthy ...

(CNN) — In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. When the ...

When Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the name given to her was Araminta Ross. Affectionately, she was called “Minty.” Before escaping north at the age of 27, afraid ...

Statues of slave-owning Founding Fathers have represented New York in the U.S. Capitol for nearly 150 years. Now, state lawmakers want to replace one of the statues with a famous New Yorker who helped ...