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Activists & Reformers Harriet Tubman ; ... Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people." Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves...
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Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger.";
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Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross ; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into whi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
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Reverently called "Moses" by the hundreds of slaves she helped to freedom and the thousands of others she inspired, Harriet Tubman became the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad to aid slaves escaping to free states or ...
http://www.civilwarhome.com/tubmanbio.htm
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In 1844, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. Harriet remained a slave, but she was able to stay in Tubman's cabin at night. Although she was married, Harriet lived in fear of being shipped to the deep South, a virtual death sentence for any slave.
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www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html
www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html
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Harriet Tubman's Life in Slavery ... Harriet Tubman's life was a monument to courage and determination that continues to stand out in American history. Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman freed herself, and played a major role in freeing the remaining millions.
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www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
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