she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away. She set out ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

“Harriet Tubman stuck from the very beginning because she was the first name that I could hang on to,” Dwight said. “Here’s ...

Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North. She would later publish an account of her anguished life in ...

Harriet Tubman’s descendants are running late. Tubman’s great-great-niece ... Once I’m able to pry Manokey away from her admirers, Ross helps his aunt into his truck, and the three of us set out ...

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist ... Another property on-site is the Tubman Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes. Tubman was unable to run the home herself due to a lack of finances, so ...

Portland Public Schools has paused its project to relocate Harriet Tubman Middle School ... Kate Brown to prioritize relocating the school away from the highway. In 2022, with Brown’s help ...

Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of slaves safely across the Canadian border. She became known as the Moses of her people. (As portrayed by Barbara Barnes- Hopkins in Canada: A People's History ...