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Harriet Tubman's Path To Freedom
Harriet Tubman was an African American woman who escaped slavery and became a very important abolitionist. After she escaped, she had not had enough, she went back and started helping hundreds of other slaves escape slavery through underground railroads. She risked her life to help hundreds of slaves from the plantation system to freedom, she was able to do this by different networks of safe houses. Harriet Tubman was born in 1822, and was in slavery for 27 years before she escaped to freedom in the North. Harriet did not remain in the North for long, she was concerned about her family and made it her goal to go get them and bring them to freedom. 1850 she lead her parents, siblings and many others to the freedom of the North. Everything changed

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