Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.
Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary,” shared how surviving family members continue to honor the late abolitionist.
Around 1844 she married a free black named John Tubman and took his last name. (She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that ...
The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Harriet Tubman has been known by her many names and roles—Araminta Ross (her birth name), Moses (a nickname), conductor, daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt. All encompass the intersecting identities ...
An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in 1849; in 1857, she led Ross and her still-enslaved mother, Rit, to Canada.
Last year, on June 14, representatives from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) held a public meeting at Hope Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Utica to discuss the proposed ...
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We’re not going back," she adds. In 2015, Daniels started the Harriet Tubman Learning Center in Powder Springs, Georgia, alongside her mother, Geraldine Copes-Daniels, with a mission to carry ...