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Harriet Tubman   /hˈɛriət tˈəbmən/   Listen
Harriet Tubman

noun
1.
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913).  Synonym: Tubman.





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"Harriet Tubman" Quotes from Famous Books



... ten years previous to the breaking out of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman was a constant attendant at anti-slavery conventions, lectures, and other meetings; she was a black woman of medium size, smiling countenance, with her upper front teeth gone, attired in coarse but neat clothes, and carrying always an old-fashioned reticule ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois


Words linked to "Harriet Tubman" :   abolitionist, emancipationist


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