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2 days ago · Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist.
2 days ago · Harriet Tubman (photo H. B. Lindsley), c. 1870. A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free over 70 people. She led people to the Northern free states and Canada. This helped Harriet Tubman gain the name "Moses of Her People".
2 days ago · Harriet Tubman was among the best known conductors of the Underground Railroad, a network of enslaved people, free blacks, and white sympathizers that assisted thousands of runaway slaves escape north.
1 day ago · ‘Harriet Tubman’ by Eloise Greenfield is a thoughtful depiction of Tubman’s life and achievements. The poet spends the first stanza describing how Tubman knew she wasn’t meant to be a slave and that she wasn’t going to stay that way.
3 days ago · FEBRUARY 25, 2021 — There are close to 50 books on African American abolitionist, suffragist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman. One of the most recent was authored by UTSA’s Denman Endowed Professor in American History Catherine Clinton.
Harriet Tubman's most renowned role was as a conductor on the Underground Railroad—a clandestine network of safe houses and routes that facilitated the escape of enslaved individuals to free states and Canada.
Jul 2, 2024 · The radical life and times of Harriet Tubman. Kellie Carter Jackson. Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. (Benjamin Powell / Library of Congress) This article appears in the July 2024 issue ....
