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HARRIET TUBMAN |
| TUBMAN,
Harriet, née ARAMINTA ROSS (c.
1820-1913), American abolitionist leader, born a slave in Dorchester
Co., Md. In her youth she served as a field hand and house servant on a
Maryland plantation, and in 1844 she married John Tubman (d. 1867), a
free black. About 1849 she escaped to the North, and before the outbreak
of the American Civil War in 1861 she made 19 journeys back to lead
other slaves-including her own parents-to freedom along the clandestine
route known as the Underground Railroad, personally guiding an estimated
300 of them to Canada. An associate of Frederick Douglass, John Brown,
William H. Seward, and other prominent abolitionists, she became known
as the Moses of her people. Her home in Auburn, N.Y., was an important
station on the escape route. During the Civil War she served the Union
army as cook, nurse, spy, and scout, working particularly in the coastal
regions of South Carolina.
In later years Tubman maintained a home for aged blacks in Auburn, where she died. |
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