Information on Harriet Tubman

While the Tubman Museum is named in honor of Harriet Tubman, she did not pass through Macon. Our founder, then Father Richard Keil, admired her faith and courage, and could not think of a better person to honor for a museum about all aspects of African American art, history, and culture.

* Currently there is NO exhibition at the Museum regarding Mrs. Tubman. Due to limited space we use exhibition space for the marvelous story of Ellen Craft, who was from Macon. In our new facility, which will be six times larger than the current one, we WILL have an entire exhibition on Harriet Tubman and we hope you will join us for the opening of the new Tubman on Cherry Street.

See the information below about the little woman who was and is the inspiration and vision behind the Tubman African American Museum.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in Bucktown, Maryland and lived to be around 98 years old. Besides leading some 300 people to freedom on some 30 trips on the underground railroad, she also served as a decorated spy against the Confederates during the Civil War.

At the abolishment of slavery she continued to aid people in need, returning from Canada to build a farm-home in Auburn, New York that served the elderly and poor. She willed her home to the A.M.E. Church and it now serves as a museum of her life.

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