Harriet Tubman

Born: 1822 in Maryland.

Died: 1913, buried with military honors.

Leader of the Underground Railroad, she risked her own life to lead hundreds of families out of slavery to safety in North.

Served as nurse and spy during Civil War and was also first woman to lead an armed expedition – the Combahee River Raid – freeing over 700 slaves in South Carolina.

After the Civil War, she helped poor former slaves and the elderly, always giving more than she had.

Endured brutal physical punishment, but was nicknamed “Moses” for her leadership.

Said: “I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”