Harriet Tubman

Born: 1822 in Maryland, into slavery

Died: 1913 with military honors burial

Leader of the Underground Railroad, which wasn’t a railroad at all, but a network of ‘safe houses’ for people that were traveling to the North to escape slavery.

The most famous “conductor,” making 19 trips back to the South & helping bring more than 300 slaves to freedom.

During the Civil War, she worked as a spy, cook & nurse for the Union Army.

Nicknamed “Moses,” she was the first woman to lead an armed expedition, liberating 700 slaves in South Carolina.

“I had crossed the line. I was free; but… I was a stranger in a strange land.”