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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland, fled north 100 miles to Philadelphia, and started life as a free lady in 1849.
However she didn‡t sit nonetheless.
By means of 13 subsequent journeys as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, the God-fearing, gun-toting Harriet Tubman helped some 70 slaves slip their chains and escorted them north, to freedom. “I can say what most conductors can‡t say,” Tubman declared. “I by no means ran my prepare off the monitor, and I by no means misplaced a passenger.”
Tubman served the Union Military as a Civil Struggle spy, and led the Combahee River Raid, a navy expedition into South Carolina that liberated some 750 slaves. The 5-foot-tall Tubman promoted ladies‡s suffrage and different causes earlier than passing away in 1913 at about age 90.
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