Thursday, May 9, 2013

Hero of the Day - Harriet Tubman




An African-American woman who is remembered for her humanitarian skills, the rescue of slaves and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Harriet Tubman, formerly a slave escaped to become the savior of other slaves. She is remembered as being an abolitionist of the Underground Railroad, a nurse and during the American civil war, a spy.

''I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to; liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other''. - Harriet Tubman

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