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Tubman led slaves to freedom

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880205
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She couldn't read or write, but she worked with the major American writers of her day - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau.

They shared a common hatred - slavery.

Her name was Harriet Tubman, and she was born in 1820 in Dorchester County, Md. She grew up a slave, working in the fields. But in 1849, she escaped to freedom, with rewards totaling some $40,000 for her recapture.

Not content merely to settle for her own freedom, Tubman became a legendary "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, a secret organization that helped slaves ...

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