She was born a slave in Maryland somewhere around 1820-1825. She escaped from slavery by using the Underground Railroad — a series of secret routes running from the safe house of one anti-slavery citizen to another, which provided fleeing slaves safe passage and assistance from the South into the Northern states or Canada (see some of the routes on the map on the left). After finding refuge in Philadelphia, Tubman then began working for the Underground Railroad. She was a devoted abolitionist and took multiple trips to the South to help escaping slaves and also served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, as well as supporting fellow abolitionist leader John Brown.
During the Civil War, Harriet worked for the North as a nurse, a cook, a scout, and a spy, even receiving later in life a pension for the services she performed at that time.
She was a devout Christian her entire life. Thomas Garrett (a Quaker partner and friend of Tubman’s) said of her, “I never met with any person, of any color, who had more confidence in the voice of God, as spoken direct to her soul.” Harriet also acknowledged her dependence on God, recalling about her race to freedom:
I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. . . . My brothers, and sisters, and friends were there [in slavery in the South]. But I was free, and they should be free. I would make a home in the North and bring them there, God helping me. Oh, how I prayed then, I said to de Lord, “I’m gwine to hole stiddy on to You, an’ I know You’ll see me through.”
She died in relative obscurity in 1913, and her many contributions, largely unknown at that time, slowly became public over the years, and she has now become recognized as a true American Christian hero.
Fought in 3 wars.
Paid off our national debt.
Let the Indians know who was boss.
Destroyed the central bank.
Tubman doesn't deserve to be on the $20 bill. This is typical, leftist racial politics.
The Left is just gonna have a fit about this when they find out.
Ignorance can be entertaining, at times.
Sorry, terrorism is a buzz kill for me.