This impressive work was followed by a series of paintings of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, as well as a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown.

It was marked by the Native Americans, slaves like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and slave-owners and others.

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

Harriet Tubman ( photo H. B. Lindsley ), c. 1870.

In fact, one of the most famous and successful abductors ( as people who secretly traveled into slave states to rescue those seeking freedom were called ) was Harriet Tubman, a woman.

* Harriet Tubman

Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero.

* March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist ( b. 1820 )

* Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman ( born Araminta Harriet Ross ; 1820 – March 10, 1913 ) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta " Minty " Ross to slave parents, Harriet (" Rit ") Green and Ben Ross.

Tubman changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage, though the exact timing is unclear.

One admirer, Sarah Hopkins Bradford, wrote an authorized biography entitled Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman, 1911

" She was frustrated by the new rule but was the guest of honor nonetheless when the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged celebrated its opening on June 23, 1908.

Surrounded by friends and family members, Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in 1913.

Statue by Jane DeDecker commemorating Harriet Tubman, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Harriet Tubman, widely known and well-respected while she was alive, became an American icon in the years after she died.

The Harriet Tubman home was abandoned after 1920, but was later renovated by the AME Zion Church.

Bradford's biographies were followed by Earl Conrad's Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist.

Dozens of schools were named in her honor, and both the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn and the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge serve as monuments to her life.

In France, Charles Kemble initiated an enthusiasm for Shakespeare ; and leading members of the Romantic movement such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas saw his 1827 Paris performance of Hamlet, particularly admiring the madness of Harriet Smithson's Ophelia.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

Jill Paton Walsh referenced " The Wimsey Papers " in writing A Presumption of Death, set at the beginning of the Second World War, in which Harriet takes a leading role.

Its publisher, John Chapman, introduced Spencer to his salon which was attended by many of the leading radical and progressive thinkers of the capital, including John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, George Henry Lewes and Mary Ann Evans ( George Eliot ), with whom he was briefly romantically linked.

* Gorge-Tillicum-A mix of lower-middle-and middle-class homes, as well as mixed industrial and commercial neighbourhoods, bounded to the northwest by Portage Inlet, to the southwest by the picturesque Gorge waterway ( a narrow channel leading from Selkirk Water to Portage Inlet ), to the east by Interurban and West Burnside Roads, to the north by the Trans-Canada Highway, and to the southeast by the border with Victoria, running along Harriet Road.

He supported the careers of many leading actors of the time such as Master Betty, his wife Elizabeth Satchell, his sister Elizabeth Whitlock, George Frederick Cooke, Harriet Pye Esten, John Edwin, Joseph Munden, Grist, Elizabeth Inchbald, Pauline Hall, Wilson, Charles Incledon, Egan.

Low's father was a leading China trader, and his father's sister, Harriet Low, was one of the first young American women to live in China.

Other passengers on the train include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter " The Whammer " Whambold, the leading hitter in the American League and three-time American League Most Valuable Player ( based on Babe Ruth ), and Harriet Bird, a beautiful but mysterious woman.

The leading characters, Harriet and Guy Pringle ( the latter a lecturer and a passionate communist ), are based on Manning herself and her husband R. D.

One source asserts that it was a favorite of Harriet Tubman, who sang it while leading slaves north.

It reverts to A minor with a busy, agitated motif, representing Lady Harriet and Nancy bustling about, leading into the C major peasant girls ' chorus theme from Act 1.

* Mary Stuart ( Synopsis: The events leading up to the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587, after a play by Friedrich von Schiller )-First Produced 2005, Scary Little Girls company Union Theatre ( London ) SE1, UK, then performed at the Donmar Warehouse ( London ) and later transferred to the Apollo Theatre in London's West End running until 2006, directed by acclaimed British opera, film and theater director Phyllida Lloyd with Janet McTeer as Mary Stuart and Harriet Walter as Elizabeth I of England.

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American art.

Harriet Powers, a slave-born African American woman, made two famous story quilts.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Harriet Tubman on his list of the 100 Greatest African Americans.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, Martin Delany's Blake ; or, The Huts of America and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig as early African American novels, and John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, which is considered the first Native American novel but which also is an early story about Mexican American issues.

As a response to perceived inaccurate portrayals of race relations in Harriet Beecher Stowe ’ s Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, Baptist preacher Tom Dixon wrote The Leopard ’ s Spots: A Romance of the White Man ’ s Burden in 1902 asserting White supremacy amidst supposed African American evil and corruption.

It noted that African Americans were happy with the efforts of Harriet Jacobs.

Other opponents, such as African American leader Harriet Tubman, simply treated the law as just another complication in their activities.

* Harriet Powers ( 1937 – 1910 ), African American slave, folk artist and noted quilt maker

* Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus ( 1877 – 1970 ), South African botanist

Many famous black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, David Walker and Sojourner Truth, spoke at the African Meeting House on Joy Street.

Harriet E. Wilson ( March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900 ) is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent.

* Since Henry Louis Gates, Jr's work in 1982, Harriet Wilson has been recognized as the first African American to publish a novel in the United States.

Harriet Powers 1837 – 1910 was an African American folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia, United States born into slavery.

Important collections of African-American art include the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, the Paul R. Jones collections at the University of Delaware and University of Alabama, the David C. Driskell Art collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Mott-Warsh collection.

He also founded the town of Whitesboro in southern New Jersey as a planned community developed for African Americans, together with prominent investors such as Booker T. Washington, the educator, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet, along with two daughters of Judge Mifflin W. Gibbs: Ida Gibbs Hunt and Harriet Gibbs Marshall.

* Harriet Tubman, African American freedom fighter

Using instructions probably given to him by Harriet Tubman, he found his way to the office of William Still, Philadelphia ’ s most notorious Underground Railroad stationmaster, who forwarded him to the home of Charles Bustill, another prominent African American Underground Railroad agent in Philadelphia.

) She meets a newfound uncle, Robert Johnson, who introduces her to her dark-skinned maternal grandmother Harriet, of mostly African descent.

Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Juneteenth Festival of African American plays.

Famed African American quilter Harriet Powers also attended this day and met with Irvine Garland Penn, the chief of the Negro Building at the Expo.