Harriet Tubman

An 11-foot bronze statue honoring one of our nation's greatest heroes is coming to downtown Cincinnati.

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, best known as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.…

Colorized photo of Harriet Tubman (1895)

History in Color on Instagram: “An 89-year-old Harriet Tubman photographed in 1911. Tubman was a American abolitionist and political activist born into slavery before…”

1868- Harriet Tubman, American hero

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The time of slavery was a dark period in history for African-Americans in the United States. By the 19th century, the states were divided over the issue of slavery. The North supported abolition and the South demanded for slave labor…

Born Araminta “Minty” Ross in Maryland around 1822, “Harriet” adopted her mother’s name after escaping slavery.

From Wikipedia: Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends,using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's…

Dubbed “The Moses of Her People,” escaped slave Harriet Tubman assisted hundreds of slaves on the Underground Railroad, leading them from Maryland to safety in Pennsylvania. Born enslaved in 1821 and raised in Dorchester County, Maryland to Benjamin and Harriett Greene Ross, she was both … Read MoreHarriet Ross Tubman (ca. 1821-1913)