 I think that when we look back at some of the details that Radford includes in the account, we can sort of broaden our understanding of what might have been the possible reasons for top of success. First of all, she was a remarkable person. That much is clear. She was brilliant. And she was brave. And I think that those two aspects of her character combined to make her formidable for all the people who had a bouncy on her head, which was said to be as much as $12,000. So I think that she was a unique individual. But in addition to that, she was someone who had lots of different kinds of experiences as a girl. When she was a girl, her name was Minty then, Araminta. She changed her name to Harriet, which was her mother's first name after she escaped to protect her identity. But when she was a girl, she was hired out to a number of different families. So she wasn't just working in one plantation. So she got to see a wide variety of contexts, different kinds of households. She got to hear different slaveholders talking about things that they observed or information that they might have been bringing to their dining room tables. And I think she was able to sort of build this broad kind of phylofax of bits of information and names of people. And I think that that helped her to be able to escape for herself and then to aid others in escaping later on. There's an interesting tidbit to develop on regarding her success, which has to do with information about Tubman that comes from the Civil War period when she was a nurse to the Union soldiers and also to the Black contraband, as they were called, as Black slaves who ran away and went to the Union camps. Tubman was said to have been an incredible healer by the soldiers. She was said to have understood how to use native plants. And that, to me, is very interesting. There's only a tidbit of this in Bradford. But it suggests that Tubman knew the environment in which she lived, that she understood something about native plants in her own home of Maryland, and that she applied that knowledge to other locations when she was stationed in South Carolina, for instance. So she knew the landscape. She understood how plants grew. She knew the waterways. And she was very observant. And this also, I think, attributed to her success. Well, the relationship between oppression and agency in the history of slavery is one that is central. And it's one that I think it's really apparent in Harriet Tubman's life. But it can be lost if we only focus on her as an heroic figure. That's why I think the early picture of her life is so important. Trying to imagine her as a child who did not have the benefit of the protection of her parents from being sent out to various people who wanted to hire her. Tubman was actually described as a sickly child. And she was a small girl, very weak. And she was often ill. And when she came back to her home plantation after these stints working for other people, her mother would have to nurse her back to health because of whippings and beatings and terrible things she had to do, such as catching rats in the rivers. So thinking about everything that she faced as a child, her vulnerability, her realness as a person, I think helps us to remember that slavery was an incredibly oppressive system that sought to render some people out of the category of humanity. Nevertheless, people resisted this because they were human beings. And we see the necessity of defining oneself as a person, a person deserving of liberty in Harriet Tubman's life. And she says, and this is recounted in Bradford's biography, that she feels that she has two rights on this earth, liberty and death. That's a familiar saying. But she is saying in that line that she feels that she is a person with the same human rights as any other person, one of those being liberty. So regardless of the fact that she was born into a circumstance that was deeply humiliating and thoroughly violent, she determined that she was not going to accept that circumstance. But I think it's really important to say here that most enslaved blacks were not able to escape. It took a really unusual set of circumstances that allowed some people to have the opportunity to escape. Harriet Tubman is one of those people she stands out as the sole figure who had the kind of life that she had. So even though we can see her life as an example of resistance and agency, we always have to remember the thousands, hundreds of thousands, and then millions of people who did not share the life experience that she had. But we do have the lyrics to sorrow songs that Tubman told to Bradford and that Tubman explained the use of to Bradford. The first of these songs is not titled in the source, but I'll just read a few lines from it. Hail, O hail ye happy spirits, death no more shall make you fear, grief nor sorrow, pain nor anguish, shall no more distress you, dear. And this song goes on for four more stanzas, and Bradford recounts that Tubman sang the song to her sweetly, is a descriptor that Bradford uses. And Tubman says that this song was a song she would use as a signal to escaping slaves. If they heard her sing that song the first time, they should pay attention. If they heard her sing it a second time, they knew that it was safe for them to leave. There's another song that is recounted right near the same place in the book, and this is the familiar song that many of us have heard of, Go Down Moses. And so Tubman recounts to Bradford the lyrics in the book saying, Oh, go down Moses, way down into Egypt's land, tell old Pharaoh, let my people go. O Pharaoh said we would go cross, let my people go, and don't get lost in the wilderness and let my people go. Now what Tubman says to Bradford about the use of this song is that if slaves who wanted to escape heard it, they should know this was a warning that they should actually stay because there was danger on the trail. So these are examples of African American cultural history, lyrics to songs, and their use is preserved for us right here in this account.