Harriet Tubman’s Death – Cause and Date

The civil rights leader Harriet Tubman died at the age of 93. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Escaped slave who became an abolitionist and Union spy during the Civil War and rescued over 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses that aided runaway slaves. She also fought for women’s suffrage after the end of the Civil War.

She married a free man named John Tubman in 1844, and they adopted a daughter named Gertie in 1874.

Quotes

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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

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Never wound a snake; kill it.

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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.

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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.