{"id":10494,"date":"2020-02-25T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2020-02-27T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:20:34","slug":"harriet-tubman-emancipationist-ornithologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/25\/harriet-tubman-emancipationist-ornithologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman – Emancipationist Ornithologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Audubon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The famed conductor traveled at night, employing deep knowledge of the region’s environment and wildlife to communicate, navigate, and survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Allison Keyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harriet Tubman, 1870s. Photo: Harvey Lindsley\/Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many people are aware of\u00a0Harriet Tubman’s work<\/a>\u00a0on the Underground Railroad and as a\u00a0scout, spy, guerrilla soldier, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. Fewer know\u00a0of\u00a0her prowess as a naturalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the\u00a0Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park<\/a>\u00a0in Church Creek, Maryland, Ranger Angela Crenshaw calls\u00a0Tubman \u201cthe ultimate outdoors woman.\u201d She\u00a0even used bird calls to help guide her charges,\u00a0eventually helping\u00a0some 70 people, including her parents and four brothers, escape slavery.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We know that she used the call of an owl to alert refugees and her freedom seekers that it was OK, or not OK, to come out of hiding and continue their journey,\u201d Crenshaw says. \u201cIt would have been the\u00a0Barred Owl<\/a>, or as it is sometimes called, a ‘hoot-owl.’ ‘They make a sound that some people think sounds like \u2018who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That nugget comes to Crenshaw from the park\u2019s historian, Kate Clifford Larson, author of the Tubman biography\u00a0Bound for the Promised Land<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIf you used the sound of an owl, it would blend in with the normal sounds you would hear at night. It wouldn\u2019t create any suspicion,\u201d Crenshaw says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Audubon Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad  The famed conductor traveled at night, employing deep knowledge of the region’s environment and wildlife to communicate, navigate, and survive. by Allison Keyes Many people are aware of\u00a0Harriet Tubman’s work\u00a0on the Underground Railroad and as a\u00a0scout, spy, guerrilla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}