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Harriet Tubman; "The Moses of her people"; Herself a fugitive, she abducted more than 300 slaves, and also served as a scout and nurse for the Union forces

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Underground railroad from slavery to freedom.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Abolitionists
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Fugitive Slaves
  5. Slaver
  6. Tubman, Harriet, 1820? 1913
  7. Underground Railroad
  8. United States
  9. Women

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