When the American Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy.

After her head injury, Tubman began having visions and potent dreams, which she considered signs from the divine.

Angry at his action and the unjust hold he kept on her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways.

After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family.

Thus, as he began recruiting supporters for an attack on slaveholders, Brown was joined by " General Tubman ", as he called her.

An 1897 suffragist newspaper reported a series of receptions in Boston honoring Tubman and her lifetime of service to the nation.

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.

Regardless of the date, this was enfranchisement in name only, since Tubman continued to repress political opposition, and to rig elections.

Liberian president Tubman was agreeable to this policy.

The longest serving president in Liberian history was William Tubman, serving from 1944 until his death in 1971.

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

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

As a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten by masters to whom she was hired out.

Traveling by night, Tubman ( or " Moses ", as she was called ) " never lost a passenger ".

Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Tubman was the one helping them.

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

Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

In her Civil War widow's pension records, Tubman claimed she was born in 1820, 1822, and 1825, an indication, perhaps, that she had only a general idea of when she was born.

As a child, Tubman was told that she was of Ashanti lineage ( from what is now Ghana ), though no evidence exists to confirm or deny this assertion.

Because Tubman ’ s mother was assigned to " the big house " and had scarce time for her family, as a child Tubman took care of a younger brother and a baby, as was typical in large families.

Tubman was ordered to keep watch on the baby as it slept ; when it woke and cried, Tubman was whipped.

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

Tubman hoped to offer her own expertise and skills to the Union cause, too, and soon she joined a group of Boston and Philadelphia abolitionists heading to the Hilton Head District in South Carolina.

Tubman soon met with General David Hunter, a strong supporter of abolition.

Jackson soon fled North with Tubman and her brothers in December 1854 ; Bailey would wait another two years before the right time presented itself.

It is likely that Tubman was by this time working with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.

) The chapter also recounts Peter and Jimmy's frustration with Sheila while working on the project ; each of them had handwritten a portion of the report booklet, but Sheila ( without their consent ) replaced their handiwork with her own, believing her handwriting to be more legible, and also wrote " Handwritten by Miss Sheila Tubman " on the report cover.

Frederick Douglass, who worked for slavery's abolitionism | abolition alongside Tubman and praised her in print

When Lincoln finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, Tubman considered it an important step toward the goal of liberating all black men, women, and children from slavery.

A white woman once asked Tubman whether she believed women ought to have the vote, and received the reply: " I suffered enough to believe it.

Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African-American women speakers who followed ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others.

" Well-Behaved Women examines the ways in which women shaped history, citing examples from the lives of Rosa Parks, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Virginia Woolf, and many other notable women in American and world history.

The team was led by top players such as Eddie Emerson, Joe Tubman, Joe Miller, Jess Ketchum, Jack Pritchard, Harold Starr and Don Young.

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

Abolitionists formed the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1857, and hosted speakers such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and also aided in the work of the Underground Railroad.

Some people believed positive neighborhood changes would benefit all residents of the area, bringing with it improved neighborhood safety and creating a demand for improved retail services along the major commercial strips, such as Fulton Street ( recently co-named Harriet Tubman Avenue ), Nostrand Avenue, Tompkins Avenue, Greene Avenue, Lewis Avenue, Flushing Avenue, Park Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Dekalb Avenue, Putnam Avenue, Bedford Avenue, Marcy Avenue, Malcolm X Boulevard, Gates Avenue, Madison Street and Jefferson Avenue.

Susan B. Anthony worked with Tubman for women's suffrage.

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

Among the residents and guests were Paul Robeson, D. C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B.

President Tubman and Vice President Tolbert on a commemorative wrap celebrating the sixth term.

Many Western politicians courted president Tubman.

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

A worker on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made 13 trips to the South, helping to free over 70 people.

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.

Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

A devout Christian, Tubman ascribed the visions and vivid dreams to revelations from God.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family.