Harriet Tubman photographed by Horatio Seymour Squyer - 1895
Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman endured a childhood of abuse at the hands of her master and overseers until she escaped to Philadelphia in 1849. Shortly afterward, she returned to Maryland to rescue her relatives and other enslaved people, undertaking 13 separate missions to do so. With the help of a network of fellow abolitionists, Tubman liberated approximately seventy people from bondage using the Underground Railroad. Commenting on the success of her missions, Tubman said that she “never lost a passenger,” and fellow abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison gave her the abiding nickname “Moses.” Friend to other civil rights luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tubman was a lifelong humanitarian and political activist. She was also a soldier, nurse, and spy. During the Civil War, Tubman first served the Union Army as a nurse in South Carolina and later went behind enemy lines as a scout and spy. In 1863 she co-led a raid at the Combahee Ferry, an action that resulted in the freeing of over 700 enslaved men and women. After the war she moved to Auburn, New York where she worked as a zealous advocate for women’s suffrage. Harriet Tubman passed away at 91 and bequeathed her house and property to found the Tubman Home for the Aged. In life and in death, this towering figure of the nineteenth century aided those in dire need and set an example that would inspire generations to come - American Heroes - Department of the Interior.
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