It was almost a spiritual moment: The living descendants of the great Americacn abolitionist Harriet Tubman seeing, for the first time, her hymnal – now housed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

"When we say she was an icon, she was a real icon," Geraldine Copes-Daniels, Tubman’s great-grandniece, said. "There were many women that went through many things, even men, and did many things for America, but Aunt Harriet went from slavery to a responsible person."

At 87, Copes-Daniels is Tubman’s oldest living descendant. She traveled to D.C. with her daughter, Rita Daniels, to see Tubman’s hymnal on display and to honor the memory of what Tubman did for her people. WUSA9’s Delia Gonçalves was the only reporter in town invited to take the trip with them.

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