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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 Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's conductors.. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she never lost a single passenger.. Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. At age five or six, she began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. While she was still in her early teens, she suffered an injury that would follow her for the rest of her life.