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Hace 1 día · Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans who had been enslaved on nearby plantations.
Hace 6 días · Harriet Tubman was born into slavery around 1820 and became an abolitionist and political activist. After her own escape north in 1849 she made some thirteen trips south to accompany enslaved...
Hace 1 día · Though the image of Harriet Tubman hugging a rifle endures as one of the most indelible in Black history, many other notable Black women owned guns.
Hace 2 días · 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".
Hace 2 días · In the allegory below, Tubman warns that the Confederacy would never be defeated unless slavery was defeated first. Tubman could not read or write, but her words were written down by Lydia Maria Child, an abolitionist and women's rights activist from Massachusetts.
Hace 6 días · I Am Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was born enslaved, but she had the courage to run to freedom – and then the courage to return, over and over, to help more slaves find their way to safety. As a conductor for the Underground Railroad, Tubman never lost a "passenger."
Hace 3 días · BEAUFORT — A long-awaited monument of escaped slave, abolitionist and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman will be unveiled June 1 at Tabernacle Baptist Church. The reveal culminates an eight-year ...
