Harriet Tubman the most active “Greatest Conductor” of “The Trackless Train”(U.s. News) and perhaps one of the best known and African-Americans during the Civil War. Many African Americans knew her as “Moses of her people”(voices of triumph); “Moses being the biblical figure who led Jews from Egypt”(world book encyclopedia vol 19) helped about 300 enslaved African (the new encyclopedia Britannica) travel north reaching and crossing over Mason-Dixon Line, the line that divided the free from the slave states (us News).

Born into slavery in 1820, Harriet Tubman, daughter of Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, was one of eleven children (Magill 5: 2342). She was a third generation slave, “her ancestors of Ashanti decent, had been brought to the United States from what is now Central Ghana in Africa in 1725 (us news).

Harriet was born on a plantation in a rural community named Bucktown, which was located on the eastern coast of Maryland in Dorchester County, which was located by Cambridge. Her master, Edward Brodas, gave her the name Araminta Ross; however disliking the name Araminta, she quickly took up her mother’s name a

“Tubman, Harriet.” The New Encyclopedia Britannica.1998ed.

Marszalek, John. “Harriet Tubman.” Great Lives From History. Vol 5 Frank N. Magill, fd.

Cave, Janet P. ed. “Real Life Exploits on a Legendary Railroad,” African American Voices Of

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