Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913)
was a Black American woman who led enslaved people along the Underground Railroad to freedom. Through this network of secret routes and safe houses she led 19 missions over 15 years from the slave-holding states of the Deep South to locations in the North that favored the cause of Abolition. Tubman emancipated hundreds of the enslaved and instructed dozens of others on how to escape on their own. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Tubman found new ways to fight slavery, working as a nurse, cook, laundress, and even a Union spy. She served with the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and treated soldiers wound at the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863. During the War, Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed expedition to conduct the raid at Combahee Ferry, South Carolina which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. After the war, she took up the cause of Woman’s Suffrage and advocated for the cause of voting rights.
https://www.nps.gov/people/harriet-tubman.htm
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Harriet Tubman