Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was an American abolitionist. She was a slave in Maryland plantation from where she escaped. She is called the 'Moses of her people' who helped many to escape slavery. During Civil War, she served as Union spy, and as a nurse.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I had reasoned this out in my mind: There were two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.

- quoted in Marcy Galen, Lost Women: Harriet Tubman

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