At age five or six, she began to work as a house servant ... she helped a fugitive slave who had been captured. During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse ...

Archaeologists in Hanover, Maryland, came across rare artifacts that have ties to American abolitionist Harriet Tubman ... detailed descriptions. Tubman led other slaves to freedom, conducting ...

“If a slave would make that long journey over ... I had no idea that they were Harriet Tubman’s! And then my uncle lost them when he moved from that house to another house." Michele Jones Galvin is a ...

Archeologists who have uncovered artifacts from Harriet Tubman's birthplace have set up a virtual museum to share them with ...

Some have been restored and are open to tours, but the Brodess house was torn down long ago ... the teacher in her classroom asked, “Who was Harriet Tubman?” The students answered: She was a woman.

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...

Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall ... feat given the perils of the 1850 Slave Fugitive Act, which enabled anyone to capture and ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet ... the White House and Treasury Department. In April 2016, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Tubman's portrait ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet ... the White House and Treasury Department. In April 2016, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Tubman's portrait ...