Harriet Tubman
"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person," Harriet Tubman wrote about escaping slavery. "There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven."
Born a slave in 1822 in Maryland, Tubman managed to escape from bondage in 1849. As soon as she was free, Tubman vowed to help other slaves escape as well.
Soon, she became one of the so-called "conductors" of the Underground Railroad — the highly secretive network of abolitionists who helped slaves to freedom. Tubman returned to the South over a dozen times to free some 70 people. As she proudly told Frederick Douglass, she "never lost a single passenger" on the Underground Railroad.
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