Significance in History

- Her significance began when she escaped slavery on September 17, 1849
- She then helped her entire family make the journey to Philidelphia
* Here she earned her nickname Moses
- She became an abolitionist and spoke at anti-salvery meetings
- She te dictated her life to the "cry of the people"
- Harriet led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman