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Harriet Tubman (third cast--Little Rock, AR)

Harriet Tubman is shown with a walking stick in her right hand and grasping the hand of a young boy with her left hand.

Harriet Tubman (second cast--Brenau University, Gainesville, GA)

Harriet Tubman is shown with a walking stick in her right hand and grasping the hand of a young boy.

Harriet Tubman (first cast--Mesa, AZ)

Harriet Tubman is shown with a walking stick in her right hand and grasping the hand of a young boy with her left hand.

Harriet Tubman

National Portrait Gallery Online Catalog: “Harriet Tubman led scores of slaves to freedom and facilitated the flight of many others after her own escape from bondage in 1849. When the Civil War began, Tubman fully committed herself to the Union…

Step on Board: Harriet Tubman Memorial (Boston, MA)

A high relief sculpture with Harriet Tubman and six figures: three women, two men, and a baby. All figures are clothed in nineteenth-century dress. Wearing a dress, shawl, and head wrap, Tubman strides forward, gesturing with her left hand and…

Go Down Moses, Let My People Go!

1917 arrangement of the spiritual, "Go down, Moses, Let my people go!"

[Verse 1]
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let my people go
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go

[Chorus]
Go down, Moses
'Way down in Egypt's…

Harriet Tubman Memorial Plaque (Auburn, NY)

Bronze plaque with a portrait of Harriet Tubman based on a 1890s photograph.

Unwavering Courage in the Pursuit of Freedom (Wilimington, DE)

A multi-figure sculpture of Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett leading two fugitive enslaved persons, a semi-nude man, and completely clothed woman, to freedom along the Underground Railroad in Wilmington, Delaware. Tubman carries a baby in her arms…

Runaway Reward Advertisement for Harriet Tubman (Minty and her two brothers), Cambridge Democrat newspaper, October 3, 1849

In 1849, shortly after Tubman and her brothers fled North, Eliza Brodess posted a $100 reward for their return in the Cambridge Democrat newspaper. Scared of capture and unsure of where to go, Tubman turned back shortly after this ad was posted.…