later changed her name to Harriet. At an early age she was put to work as a field hand. She received no education, and never learned to read or write.

In 1844, Harriet was forced by her owner to marry a fellow slave, John Tubman. Leaving her husband behind, she escaped in 1849 to the North, and thereafter

helped lead other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. She undertook the most hazardous missions, and employed stern measures, including the

threat of death, against frightened fugitives who wanted to give up the flight and return to bondage. Quaker sympathizers helped her on her 20 dangerous journeys

to the South to collect new groups of fugitives, and John Brown was one of her friends. In 1857 she rescued her parents, setting them up in a house in Auburn,

N.Y. A $40,000 bounty was put on her head, but Harriet

he term Underground Railroad arose as a colloquialism during America's pre-Civil War

Despite well-known forays into the deep South to spirit slaves to freedom such as those

communication, and decision making within the network of escape. The railroad was most

of Harriet Tubman the great majority of escaped slaves acted on their own. They made

became a legendary figure of the Underground Railroad. Born to slave parents, she escaped (c.1849) to freedom by

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