Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad conductor who led 70+ enslaved people to freedom; also led an armed Civil War raid that liberated 700.
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Born enslaved as Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland around 1822. Escaped in 1849, then returned to Maryland 13 times to lead family and strangers north. Served as a Union Army scout and was the first woman to lead an armed assault on the Confederacy.
Location
Cambridge, MD, USA
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