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.
Harriet did not welcome any children during her first marriage. She would later adopt a girl called Gertie Davis in 1874 but she never had biological kids. John Tubman's second wife welcomed four ...
In line with this recognition, I am sharing the expressed impact that Harriet Tubman as abolitionist and social activist has ...
Harriet Tubman has been known by her many names and roles—Araminta Ross (her birth name), Moses (a nickname), conductor, daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt. All encompass the intersecting identities ...
Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for ...
So how would you do if, as in the novel “The Tubman Command” by Elizabeth Cobbs, the very lives of soldiers, women and children were in your hands? On so many mornings, Harriet Tubman woke ...