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.

* Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist ( One-act play )

* National winner, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, for Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist

The weather turned warmer and with it came better appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-color.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Harriet was just as delighted.

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

What would become the influential Poetry Magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune.

He was the third son of Harriet Catherine ( née Curran ) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman.

It was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.

in 1973 ; the role of Harriet was played by Joanna David, and Wimsey by Ian Carmichael.

Harriet Vane was played by Harriet Walter.

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.

Friends and those close to her remarked that, while fashionable like Kennedy, she would be different than other first ladies ; close friend Harriet Deutsch was quoted as saying, " Nancy has her own imprint.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

His mother, Harriet May Norton, a 1921 graduate of Oberlin College, was the daughter of the Rev.

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

He lived with his wife Harriet McDougal, who works as a book editor ( currently with Tor Books ; she was also Jordan's editor ) in a house built in 1797.

Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948.

His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.