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Harriet Tubman (Araminta Ross) was born around 1822 in a family of slaves. Around 1844, she married John Tubman, a free black man, and a little later changed her name to Harriet. Their marriage was a difficult case because of the legal doctrine known as partus sequitur ventrem - children born in such a union became slaves.
With the help of a network of absolutists and Quakers, called the "underground railway," Harriet escaped but then she returned to her old plantation for the members of her family, then for the unfamiliar black slaves.
She helped hundreds of slaves travel north; many of them settled in Canada, out of the reach of American runaway slave laws. She was called "Moses of her people." The legend of Harriet Tubman has become an enduring symbol of the fight against slavery. She took part in the Civil War, on the side of the northerners, working in the army of the northerners as a spy against the South. Then, after the war, at the end of the 19th century, she took an active part in the suffragist movement, in the struggle for the right to vote for women.
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