Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump. The Electoral College could see a historic number of 'faithless electors.'. Some presidential electors are lobbying their counterparts in other states to reject their oaths to vote against Donald Trump when the Electoral College meets on Dec. 19. | AP Photo.
*William Still - Former slave who purchased his own freedom and then became a leader in the Underground Railroad. He also wrote a book preserving the stories of escaped slaves. *Frederick Douglass - African-American abolitionist and publisher of the North Star newspaper.
Possibly the most famous of all the Underground Railroad's heroes, Harriet Ross Tubman managed over a decade to make 19 trips into the South and lead more than 300 slaves to freedom. Harriet Ross was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, approximately 1821. At age five, she went to work as a house slave.