Her first husband, John Tubman, refused to go with her, which led to the break of their marriage. Slavery was eventually abolished in 1865 following the American Civil War. Harriet then settled in ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of ... On her third return, she went after her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom ...

Rita Daniels didn't always know she was the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman. In fact, a 9-year-old Daniels had no idea they were related when her teacher assigned her a book report ...

Last year, on June 14, representatives from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) held a public ...

An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in ...

Still Harriet refused to give in. To get Harriet away from his wife, who was suspicious of her husband's intentions, he built a cottage for the girl slave four miles from town. Harriet had ...

The Harriet Tubman $20 bill will replace the current ... when she was about to be sold away from her family and free husband John Tubman, she fled Maryland to freedom in Philadelphia.

HARRIET TUBMAN, BORN INTO SLAVERY IN DORCHESTER COUNTY, ESCAPED TO FREEDOM BUT RETURNED TO HER EASTERN SHORE HOME 13 TIMES TO HELP OTHERS ALONG THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. SHE ACTUALLY USED THE ...