"The Harriet Tubman Museum has been organized to recognize Harriet Tubman's courage, compassion and conviction as well as the history of abolitionist activism in Cape May and its surrounding region.

Harriet Tubman lived in Cape May in the early 1850s, working to fund her expeditions to conduct fugitive slaves to freedom, and leaving Cape May to rescue enslaved people in southern states," event organizers said in an announcement.

Although Cape May is a small New Jersey town about an hour outside of Philadelphia, it played an integral role in the abolitionist movement and served as a home to Tubman and many others as they worked to free slaves.

The town sits right across the bay from Delaware and for many slaves served as a destination to freedom.