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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
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Harriet Tubman, circa 1880
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the best known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a 10-year period, she made 19 trips into the South and escorted more than 300 slaves to freedom.
Tubman was born a slave in Maryland around 1820 and married a free black man named John Tubman. Fearing she and the other slaves were to be sold, in 1849 Tubman escaped and made her way to Philadelphia. During the Civil War she worked as a Union cook, nurse, and spy. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York; she died in 1913. Courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Harriet Tubman

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