Harriet Tubman was an American slave who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She was born in Maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. Then she returned many times to help both family members and non-relatives escape from slavery. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
John Brown:
(Harriett) was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."
Frederick Douglass:
"Excepting John Brown...I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardship to serve our enslaved people..."
Thomas Garrett:
"I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God"
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary."
Wilber Henry Siebert
"Harriet Tubman, like John Mason, did not reckon the value of her own liberty in comparison with the liberty of others who had not tasted its sweets."
(Harriett) was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."
Frederick Douglass:
"Excepting John Brown...I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardship to serve our enslaved people..."
Thomas Garrett:
"I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God"
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary."
Wilber Henry Siebert
"Harriet Tubman, like John Mason, did not reckon the value of her own liberty in comparison with the liberty of others who had not tasted its sweets."
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