Harriet Tubman

The Anti-slavery resistance Fighter behind the Underground Railroad to Freedom

Born into the brutal reality of American slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to let her spirit be chained. She was not merely an escapee; she was an architect of liberation, a conductor on the clandestine network known as the Underground Railroad. With unflinching courage and deep faith as her only guides, she navigated treacherous landscapes under the constant threat of capture, returning to the hostile South time and again. On approximately thirteen missions, she personally guided more than seventy enslaved people to freedom, famously boasting that her train “never went off the track and never lost a passenger.” Her work didn’t stop there; during the Civil War, she served the Union Army as a scout, spy, and nurse, and became the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, the Combahee River Raid, which liberated over 700 more. Harriet Tubman stands as a monumental testament to the power of an individual’s will to fight injustice and to risk everything for the freedom of others.