Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.

click image for close-up Harriet Tubman's days as a conductor for the Underground Railroad had long past when this photograph was taken, believed to be sometime around 1880.

As a conductor on the Underground Railroad it is estimated that Tubman freed around 70 enslaved people. Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted Tubman ...

How climate change is affecting the legacy of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad and a national park’s landscape on Maryland’s Eastern Shore On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a sweeping expanse of ...

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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 ...

Almost a decade after the announcement that Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the $20 bill, we’re still getting Jacksons every time we hit the ATM. Surprised? The U.S. Mint recently ...

Harriet Tubman saved hundreds of the enslaved without displaying any human faults or features. Such caricatures do a disservice to understanding the very real, very human people who have shaped ...

The new Netflix biopic Harriet details the story of Harriet Tubman, a Black woman who escaped from slavery and then devoted ...

Harriet Tubman is set to posthumously be made a one-star general by the Maryland National Guard and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Monday, which is also Veteran’s Day. The abolitionist, who was ...

Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War The Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...