Abolition
Harriet Tubman
c. 1822 – 1913
Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. Escaped in 1849, then returned roughly thirteen times to lead approximately seventy people out of bondage on the Underground Railroad. As a Union scout, she planned and led the 1863 Combahee River Raid in South Carolina — the first armed military operation led by a woman in U.S. history — liberating more than 750 enslaved people in a single night.
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