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 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.

# Harriet Vaughan Abbott ( born February 18, 1838 )

Pirsig was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Maynard Pirsig and Harriet Marie Sjobeck, and is of German and Swedish descent.

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

Since the mother's status dictated that of children, any children born to Harriet and John would be enslaved.

Arthur Evans was born in Nash Mills, England, the first child of John Evans and Harriet Ann Dickinson, the daughter of John's employer, inventor and founder of Messrs John Dickinson, a paper mill.

* Harriet Lane ( 1830-1903 ), niece of James Buchanan, was born at Mercersburg in the Lane House.

* Harriet Shaw Weaver ( 1876 – 1961 ), feminist political activist and patron of James Joyce, was born in Frodsham.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811.

He was born in Norwich, the seventh child of Thomas Martineau and Elizabeth Rankin, the sixth, his senior by almost three years, being his sister Harriet, the writer and pioneer sociologist.

He was born in Great Portland Street, London, on 31 December 1799, at the house of his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fendall ; he was the eldest son of George Moultrie, rector of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, by his wife Harriet ( died 1867 ).

His third daughter Harriet was born at the end of the year.

Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet ( née Gilbert ), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer.

Mary was followed by Charlotte ( born 1801 ), Harriet ( born 10 February 1803 ), Charles Badeau ( the only male child ; born 1809 ) and Appolonia ( born 1810 ).

His second wife Marianne died in 1880, and in 1881 he married Harriet Robson from Bletchingley in Surrey ( born 1840 ).

Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, the son of Harriet Evelyn ( née Brown ) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater.

Clarence Leonidas Fender (" Leo ") was born on August 10, 1909, to Clarence Monte Fender and Harriet Elvira Wood, owners of a successful orange grove located between Anaheim and Fullerton, California.

Leveson-Gower was born in London, the eldest son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, by Lady Harriet Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.

He was born in London, the son of Thomas Frankland Lewis of Harpton Court, Radnorshire and his wife Harriet Cornewall.

Pelosi won the special election to succeed her, narrowly defeating San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt on April 7, 1987, then easily defeating Republican candidate Harriet Ross on June 2, 1987 ; Pelosi took office a week later.

She has not participated in candidates ' debates since her 1987 race against Harriet Ross.

In the runoff against Republican candidate Harriet Ross, Pelosi received more than a 2-to-1 majority of votes cast in a turnout that comprised about 24 % of eligible voters.

Lucy and her husband, Harriet's son, Ross Stole, had an egg fertilized and later implanted into the womb of Harriet.

On March 10, 2005, Fulton Street was co-named Harriet Ross Tubman Avenue along most of its length from Rockaway Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant to Elm Place in Downtown Brooklyn, on the anniversary of the death of the ex-slave and abolitionist, which has been designated " Harriet Tubman Day of Commemoration " in New York State.

Actors heard on the series included Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliot Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O ' Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson.