Harriet’s life was dedicated to freeing herself and her people. But she believed she was responding to a higher voice–the voice of God. Was Harriet Tubman a prophet? In this episode we look at the evidence including, most importantly, Harriet’s...

In this episode we explore Harriet’s seemingly endless struggle to rest. This episode explores Harriet’s later life, after the war and after slavery is abolished. American society tends to value people based on what they can produce, what they ...

How could a formerly enslaved person work with the system in order to fight the injustice of the system? Harriet’s actions go from local to global as she joins in the struggle to end slavery–the Civil War. In this episode we see that ethical ac...

In episode 4 we learn about what Harriet did once she began the process of liberating herself. We see that she goes beyond her self and her immediate family to attack the system of slavery. This takes a number of shapes through her life. We ret...

In this episode, we start to see that Harriet Tubman lived her life by moving from one heroic act to another. In the process, we see her ethics are emerging. We’re beginning to understand that ethics can only truly be understood in the context ...

In episode 2 we explore the life that Araminta Ross was born into–slavery on the Eastern Shore. She was born into a system that had rules and practices which had direct and specific impact on the enslaved, who were simply a commodity in that sy...

In episode 1 we present the argument that ethics is about confronting evil, standing in solidarity with people who suffer. In the case of American slavery, a system was created where many profited while some suffered in unimaginable ways. Any a...

Eric Bowman, M.A.R., is the founder and teacher for the Revolution Ethics Project, a non-profit ethics seminar for all ages. He has been a public high school teacher at ConVal High School in Peterborough, NH for over 25 years.W...