Escaping Home

Harriet Tubman preferred to navigate the woods and waterways of Maryland’s Eastern Shore on winter nights when guiding enslaved people north on the Underground Railroad.  

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using GIS data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Harriet Tubman photograph by Benjamin Powelson, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 17, 2024
Data acquired January 22, 2024

Sources:

Landsat 9 > OLI-2

Photograph

Collection:

U.S. National Parks