Shawl Given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria

In 1897, Queen Victoria of England, sovereign of the largest empire in the world, presented this silk, lace, and linen shawl to formerly enslaved Harriet Tubman. Victoria’s immense display of respect and admiration underscored Tubman’s amazing life, her pursuit of ...

Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church

Harriet Tubman (1820/21?--1913), a renowned leader in the Underground Railroad movement, established the Home for the Aged in 1908. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman gained her freedom in 1849 when she escaped to Philadelphia. Working as ...

National Historic Landmark - Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged

National Historic Landmark -Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Harriet Tubman Residence, Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church

Tubman (1821-1913),the most famous -conductor-on the Underground Railroad, personally led more than 300 slaves to freedom.

She established this home for aged and indigent African Americans ...

Harriet Tubman

1820-1913

The "Moses of her People", Harriett Tubman of the Bucktown District found freedom for herself and some three hundred other slaves whom she led north. In the Civil War she served the Union army as a nurse, scout and spy.

Marker ...

Harriet Ross Tubman

Abolitionist - American Hero

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery

in 1849. She fled to Philadelphia where, as a

conductor on the Underground Railroad, she

made 19 sorties into the South, liberating

over 300 slaves. Ms. Tubman also served

as a ...

Harriet Tubman

c. 1821 - 1913

"The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witness of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism," wrote fellow abolitionist and Eastern Shore native Frederick Douglass of Harriet Tubman. A Civil War nurse, scout, ...