Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant
to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by
an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about
the Underground Railroad which she travelled by herself north to
Philadelphia. Throughout her long life (she died at the age of
ninety-two) and long after the Civil War brought an end to slavery, this
amazing woman was proof of what just one person can do.