Harriet Tubman: The “Moses of Her People”
Born Harriet Ross in Bucktown, Maryland, in about 1820, and raised a slave, Harriet married John Tubman, a free black, in 1844.
She escaped from slavery alone via the Underground Railroad five years after her marriage. However, her own freedom wasn’t enough for this brave woman.
Over the next ten years, Harriet returned to slave territory to help nearly 300 other slaves, including her elderly parents, escape to freedom.
She also helped John Brown organize his 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War.
Even as an old woman, Harriet believed in action: She helped support former slaves and relatives and worked to raise money for freedmen’s schools and a home for elderly blacks. She died in 1913.
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