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A photo of an image taken at Harriet Tubman's funeral. Th abolitionist died in 1913 at the age of 93. (Photo: Copy photo by Melanie Eversley). Harriet Tubman is remembered as an abolitionist, a Civil War spy, and a beacon for freedom-seeking slaves. But she was also a woman who defied simple categorization, according to one of her biographers.
Harriet Tubman was an African-American anti-slavery worker, and humanitarian. She was also a Union spy during the American Civil War. She was born into slavery but she escaped. During her life, she made nineteen trips. She helped more than 300 slaves escape. She used the Underground Railroad. When Tubman was a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by many different masters. When she was very young, an angry overseer threw a heavy metal weight at another slave. The weig