Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland - March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, was an African-American freedom fighter. An escaped slave, she worked as a guerrilla, farmhand, lumberjack, laundress, cook, refugee organizer, raid leader, intelligence commander, nurse, healer, revival speaker, feminist, fundraiser, and cunductor on the Underground Railroad.

Quotes by Harriet Tubman

• "I freed thousands of slaves, I could have freed more if they knew they were slaves."
• "I never lost a passenger."
• "I can't die but once."

Quotes about Harriet Tubman

• "One of the bravest persons on this continent." -- John Brown
• "Excepting John Brown... I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people." -- Frederick Douglass
• "I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God." -- Thomas Garrett