Harriet Tubman with Rescued Slaves, c. 1885

Harriet Tubman with Rescued Slaves, c. 1885

After gaining her freedom by running to Philadelphia in 1849, Harriet Tubman returned to the South nearly nineteen times to help over three hundred slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. A large number of slaves, unwilling to wait for manumission or formal abolition, took emancipation into their own hands by escaping to freedom.

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