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Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves

  • Written by Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
A portrait from 1868 of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz

Millions of people voted in an online poll in 2015 to have the face of Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill. But many might not have known the story of her life as chronicled in a recent film, “Harriet.”

Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an...

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