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.

Manokey says she likes the new painting much better, because it shows a younger Tubman and the marshy terrain. Ultimately, President Barack Obama used the Antiquities Act to designate the Harriet ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who ... a Quaker who assisted more than 3,000 slaves, and Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to ...

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 ...

The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Museum welcomed a traveling Harriet Tubman monument to their center on Wednesday, ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

What was the Underground Railroad? Ex- slave and founder of the “Underground Railroad”, Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted. Unlike Colson ...

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 ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.The Banneker-Douglass Museum in ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Harriet Tubman ... Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy ...