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

Bleeding and unconscious, Tubman was returned to her owner's house and laid on the seat of a loom, where she remained without medical care for two days.

Tubman returned to the land of her enslavement.

In the fall of 1851, Tubman returned to Dorchester County for the first time since her escape, this time to find her husband, John.

For 11 years Tubman returned again and again to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rescuing some 70 slaves in about 13 expeditions, including her three other brothers, Henry, Ben, and Robert, their wives and some of their children.

Shortly after acquiring the Auburn property, Tubman went back to Maryland and returned with her " niece ", an eight-year-old light-skinned black girl named Margaret.

In early 1859, abolitionist U. S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US $ 1, 200.

Catherine Clinton suggests that anger over the 1857 Dred Scott decision may have prompted Tubman to return to the U. S. Her land in Auburn became a haven for Tubman's family and friends.

Tubman ( far left ), with Davis ( seated, with cane ), their adopted daughter Gertie ( beside Tubman ), Lee Cheney, John " Pop " Alexander, Walter Green, Blind " Aunty " Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubman's home in Auburn, New York circa 1887

Tubman spent her remaining years in Auburn, tending to her family and other people in need.

Because of the debt she had accumulated ( including delayed payment for her property in Auburn ), Tubman fell prey in 1873 to a swindle involving gold transfer.

At the turn of the 20th century, Tubman became heavily involved with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn.

When she died, Tubman was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn.

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 visited Auburn, New York, located in Cayuga County, in 1887 with her daughter ( adopted ) and her 2nd husband.

His grandmother, Martha Coffin Wright, and in succession her daughter and Osborne's mother, Eliza Wright Osborne, and a niece, Josephine Osborne, oversaw the finances of Harriet Tubman, who spent her last half-century in Auburn.

Within downtown Auburn, NY 34 passes by the Harriet Tubman Home and the William Seward House.

As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook.

Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

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.

Tubman at first prepared to storm their house and make a scene, but then decided he was not worth the trouble.

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

Two years later, Tubman received word that her father had harbored a group of eight escaped slaves, and was at risk of arrest.

Tubman helped John Brown ( abolitionist ) | John Brown ( pictured ) plan and recruit for the raid at Harpers Ferry.

Tubman later worked with Colonel Robert Gould Shaw at the assault on Fort Wagner, reportedly serving him his last meal.

When the National Federation of Afro-American Women was founded in 1896, Tubman was the keynote speaker at its first meeting.

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

Medical education is offered at the A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine, and there is a nursing and paramedical school at the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts.

* A women's honors dormitory named for her and Harriet Tubman at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, is commonly referred to as Harper-Tubman, or simply Harper.

* Harriet Tubman, mural at Bennett College, 1930

President Toure, along with President William Tubman of neighboring Liberia and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, was the vanguard behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), which has been transformed into the African Union ( AU ), at a Special Head of States Meeting held in the northern Liberian city of Sanniquelle, Nimba County, which is often referred to as the " birth place " of the OAU ( now the AU ).

Little is known about Frank's past save that he attended Harriet Tubman High School ( a real high school in Compton, California ), where he was held back at least twice.

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

* Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her people to Freedom, with Kadir Nelson ( Illustrator ), 2006, Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-5175-9

Its offices are located at Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia.

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

Antislavery activist Harriet Tubman guided fugitives at night and bribed custom officials to turn a blind eye.

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.

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

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.

Many Western politicians courted president Tubman.

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.

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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