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.
Quotes about Harriet Tubman
- John Brown was to refer to her as "General Tubman" and called her "one of the bravest persons on this continent."
- "Excepting John Brown... I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people." -- Frederick Douglass
- "I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God." -- Thomas Garret
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