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Enslaved people often wore disguises to avoid suspicion ... and under whose inspiration it was originated and conducted.'” Harriet Tubman was posthumously named a general in a Veterans Day ...
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.
He had purchased his enslaved wife, Harriet “Rit” Green ... Between about 1850 and 1860, using stealth and disguise, Tubman made 13 trips home, spiriting 70 people out of enslavement ...
CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Deanna Mitchell pointed to the bronze bust of Harriet Tubman at the center's entrance and urged visitors to touch the nape of its neck to feel the scars. The bust, she ...
WASHINGTON — The National Parks Service restored Harriet Tubman's portrait and quote Monday after it had edited out of its "Underground Railroad" webpage. The agency's "What is the Underground ...
But Kate Clifford Larson has accomplished both in her brilliant biography of Harriet Tubman, whose name has become synonymous with selfless dedication to her people. Tubman was born a slave around ...