Harriet

Take a break from Trump and his pending impeachment and go see "Harriet."  It is an account of Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave who went back into the South and led over 70 other slaves to freedom in the North or Canada.

I knew a little about Tubman from a term paper our daughter Rachael wrote in high school.  (I typed all of Rachael's high school papers and Linda's college papers.)  What I didn't realize was that Tubman also led an actual military raid during the Civil War, nor did I realize that she died in 1913, just one year before my father was born.

It is an exciting film.  What the movie doesn't tell you was that fewer than 2% of the slaves escaped to the north or to Canada, and almost none of those were from the deep South.  Nonetheless, the fact that some escaped led to the Fugitive Slave Law, which led to Northern anger, which was one of the contributing factors to the Civil War.  Nonetheless, the fact that some escaped led to the Fugitive Slave Law, which led to Northern anger, which was one of the contributing factors to the Civil War.