As a conductor on the Underground Railroad it is estimated that Tubman freed around 70 enslaved people. Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted Tubman ...

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 Tubman — who was named Araminta “Minty” Ross when she was born into slavery ... Desperate to avoid an unknown future in the cotton fields of the Deep South, Tubman determined she would have ...

Harriet Tubman has been posthumously recognized as a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. At a ceremony ...

Mr Oakley said Harriet's mother was unable to attend the day-long inquest because she was still "haunted day and night" by her daughter's death. In her statement, Mrs Forster said: "The sights and ...

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1822. As an adult, she escaped to the North when she learned she was to be sold after the death of her enslaver.

Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War The Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...

She even found happiness after her mother's death, when she moved into the home of her mother's mistress -- a kind woman who nurtured the young Harriet, teaching her to read and sew, and seeing to ...