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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Photograph
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Photograph, 1906

Image: 13.6 cm x 9.7 cm; whole page (visible in large image): 22.5 cm x 15.2 cm

From Portraits of American Abolitionists (a collection of images of individuals representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints in the slavery debate)
Photo. 81.651


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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

After her escape from slavery over 50 years earlier, Tubman famously helped other slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, recruited men for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War. She was in her eighties when this photograph was taken.