The National Park Service’s webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad once carried a banner quoting Harriet Tubman, the most famous guide along the secret network of safehouses moving escaped slaves to free states.
No longer.
Tubman’s quote and portrait were replaced shortly after Trump took office with an image of U.S. commemorative postage stamps honoring both African American and white heroes of the era, including Tubman, with the text “Black/White Cooperation.”
The page was also heavily edited to remove descriptions of enslaved people “escaping bondage” in favor of a slimmer analysis of the railroad as a collaborative effort across racial and social divides, according to earlier versions of the website reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News using web archives.
