Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (born 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, died March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, was an African-American freedom fighter. An escaped slave, she worked as a guerrilla, farmhand, lumberjack, laundress and cook, refugee organizer, raid leader and intelligence commander, nurse and healer, revival speaker, feminist and fundraiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from slavery and racism.

Post American Civil War life

Harriet Tubman continued as an activist for African-American and women's rights. With Sarah Bradford acting as her biographer and transcribing her stories, she was able to have the story of her life published in 1869 as Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. This was of considerable help to her sad financial state - she was not awarded a government pension for her military service until some 30 years after the fact. That same year she married Nelson Davis, another Civil War veteran.

Related Topics:
African-American - Sarah Bradford - Nelson Davis

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Eventually, she settled in the home for needy blacks that she herself had helped to found in Auburn, New York. It was built on the land in upstate New York sold to her by her famous friend William H. Seward, former secretary of state of the United States of America. She died there in 1913. She told stories of her adventures until the end of her days.

Related Topics:
Auburn, New York - William H. Seward - Secretary of state - United States of America

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