On this day, 20 April 1853, the formerly enslaved woman-turned abolitionist Harriet Tubman began working on the Underground Railroad, which smuggled enslaved people to freedom. She personally rescued some 70 people, and assisted many more.
This is an account of a rescue mission she led during the civil war: https://libcom.org/history/combahee-river-raid-1863-earl-conrad https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1698938170291326/?type=3
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