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A photo of an image taken at Harriet Tubman's funeral. Th abolitionist died in 1913 at the age of 93. (Photo: Copy photo by Melanie Eversley). Harriet Tubman is remembered as an abolitionist, a Civil War spy, and a beacon for freedom-seeking slaves. But she was also a woman who defied simple categorization, according to one of her biographers.
Harriet Ross Tubman was an illiterate slave born in the Bucktown district of Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She escaped to freedom, alone, in 1849. For the next 11 years she returned to the South 19 times to lead more than 300 slaves north across the Mason-Dixon Line and sometimes into Canada.