Talk:Harriet Tubman

Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2025

In the intro paragraph it is stated she saved 70 slaves, when underneath her info card it then says 700. Please change the first instance to 700 for consistency and accuracy. 2A02:6B6F:E90C:A00:58E2:AB6C:E84A:9032 (talk) 18:18, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done: The article says Tubman Template:Xt. This is followed by Template:Xt—crediting her with a rather different role in a particular event. Remsense ‥ 论 18:37, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

National Park Service website

Starting this topic as requested by @Remsense to avoid an edit war. I believe the information about Tubman's removal and subsequent restoration to the National Park Service's web page about the Underground Railroad is significant enough to be mentioned in this article. She is a major figure in Black history, and the alteration of that history has been one of the objectives of the current presidential administration, as also detailed at 2025 United States government online resource removals. Funcrunch (talk) 20:08, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

I don't think a US government agency having a webpage on a famous American is a notion that can speak to its own mention in that famous American's biography—likewise with the current events a thousand other things are shallowly tied up in. I agree she's a major figure in Black history, that's exactly why these news items are total minutiae when compared to what the article should be focusing on. The article you linked that's primarily about these events is exactly where the accounts of these pages should remain, where they in turn can receive proper focus. This is a biography of Tubman, not a coatrack for events not really about her. Remsense ‥ 论 20:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

There is a lot of material published about Tubman, and we are trying to keep the article up to featured standards. Because of that we are relatively selective about what gets included. With that in mind, I agree with Remsense. This seems (so far) to be too transient and tangential to include here. --RL0919 (talk) 06:10, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Margaret and Gertie?

I've been looking around and it seems some places online treat Margaret and Gertie are the same person. (For example Find a Grave.) But this article states that Margaret was brought home at 8 years old while Gertie was adopted as an infant. Is this a mistake of these sources? ★Trekker (talk) 23:36, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

There's a reason that Find a Grave is not considered a reliable source, because volunteer users can contribute content that isn't verified. The person listed as the "Maintained by" user for the page you linked says in her own profile that Find a Grave has "many mistakes ... where people do not do their research and connect the wrong family members to memorials". The historian that is cited on that Find a Grave page (Kate Larson) says that Margaret Woolford was born sometime in the 1850s and came to New York with Tubman in 1861; she had several children and died in 1930. Larson also says that Gertrude "Gertie" Davis was born in the 1870s and adopted by Tubman and her husband as an infant; she had no surviving children. So rather than Find a Grave, I would ask is there a reputable source that is contradicting Larson's research? --RL0919 (talk) 00:27, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't have Larson's book at hand, I was confused as the Find A Grave page seemed to cite a reliable source (Larson). The person writing that page must have bungled it and the misinfo spread otherwise. Thank you for your reply.★Trekker (talk) 00:35, 30 May 2025 (UTC)