Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...

(She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman ...

She provided information to the plantation slaves during these raids and many slaves were led to safety within the Union lines. “I wish to commend to your attention Mrs. Harriet Tubman ...

Harriet Tubman and John Tubman were married for about five years. They met in the early 1840s on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. At the time, Harriet was still going by her birth name ...

On murky nights, when dullness stole the sky and blanketed the North Star, Harriet Tubman ... using these examples and Tubman’s upbringing on farmlands — and in plantation slavery — scholars ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and ...

A plantation overseer threw an iron weight ... it is estimated that Tubman freed around 70 enslaved people. Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted ...

The land was part of a 2,167-acre plantation and is said to have been where Harriet Tubman’s family lived, and a putative stop on the Underground Railroad. The Witness Tree — a tulip poplar ...

Climate documentary about elder Black gay women farming Harriet Tubman’s ancestral lands is now streaming on Black Public ...