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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues

  • Written by Kate Clifford Larson, Visiting Scholar Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
imageA portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America.

“I had reasoned this out...

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