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The Life and Death of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman’s Contributions to the Abolitionist Movement Harriet Tubman was an African American abolitionist and political activist who played a pivotal role in the fight against slavery in the United States. Born into slavery in Maryland in the early 1820s, Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849. Over the course of the next decade, she made numerous dangerous…