Harriet Tubman:
(Dorchester County, Maryland, 1823 – Auburn, March 10, 1913).
American abolitionist. She was an escaped slave. On an estimated 13 trips to the southern United States, she helped approximately 70 slaves escape to the North or to Canada, using the network known as the Underground Railroad.[1][2] She helped John Brown recruit men for his Raid on Harper’s Ferry, a failed attempt to start a slave rebellion by raiding the arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. During the American Civil War, she served in the Union Army, first as a nurse and cook, and later as an (armed) scout and spy. She guided the Raid on Combahee Ferry, during which over 700 slaves were freed by the Union Army, and worked for Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the ill-fated attack on Fort Wagner. After the war, she retired to Auburn, New York, where she cared for her elderly parents (whom she herself had helped escape from the South before the war). Later in life, she campaigned for women’s suffrage.
