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.

During the " Depression Era " she worked for the Works Progress Administration, painting ( among other commissions ) a mural for the Harriet Lane Home for Children.

Northern ( and British ) readers recoiled in anger at the horrors of slavery through the novel and play Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin ( 1852 ) by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Harriet, herself a victim of poison-pen letters ever since her trial, reluctantly agrees to help, and spends much of the next few months resident at the college, ostensibly to do research on Sheridan Le Fanu and assist a don with her book.

In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.

The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ).

The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

In 1853, she spoke at a suffragist " mob convention " at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City ; that year she also met Harriet Beecher Stowe.

* Full text of Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

They had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella ( 1837 – 1919 ), Jane ( died at 8 months ) and Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ).

Harriet Vaughan Cheney used it in her 1824 novel A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Thirty-Six, and the term also gained popularity with the 1825 publication of Felicia Hemans ' classic poem, " The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road ( 1949 ); a role in the violent film noir The Damned Don't Cry ( 1950 ), and the title role of Harriet Craig ( 1950 ), a movie which she herself claimed during a David Frost interview, reflected her own brand of control freakery-a movie made at Columbia Pictures.

He helped T. S. Eliot in a practical way, by persuading Harriet Shaw Weaver to appoint Eliot as his successor at The Egoist ( helped by Pound ), and later in 1919 with an introduction to the editor Bruce Richmond of the Times Literary Supplement, for which he reviewed French literature.

Later that year, he attended a production by a traveling English theater company at the Odéon theatre with the Irish-born actress Harriet Smithson playing Ophelia and Juliet in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

Despite Berlioz not understanding spoken English and Harriet not knowing any French, on 3 October 1833, they married in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy with Liszt as one of the witnesses.

In 1827, Berlioz watched Irish actress Harriet Smithson at the Odéon theatre playing Ophelia and Juliet in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

Poster for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln Center production by James McMullanArcadia first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London on 13 April 1993 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge, Felicity Kendal as Hannah Jarvis, Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale, Emma Fielding as Thomasina Coverly, Alan Mitchell as Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson as Ezra Chater, Sidney Livingston as Richard Noakes, Harriet Walter as Lady Croom, Graham Sinclair as Captain Brice, Harriet Harrison as Chloe Coverly, Timothy Matthews as Augustus Coverly and Gus Coverly and Samuel West as Valentine Coverly.

* 2006, Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter in the title roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Later at school, during a game of tag, Harriet loses her notebook.