The Seneca Falls Convention
1848
1848 · the first women's rights convention in the United States
Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, New York
In memory of
Harriet Tubman
Conductor on the Underground Railroad
- Born
- Died
- Resting place
- Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York, United States
Born into slavery in Maryland, Tubman escaped in 1849 and then went back, again and again, guiding some seventy enslaved people north to freedom. During the Civil War she scouted for the Union army and led the Combahee River raid, which freed more than seven hundred people in a single night.
Her exact birth year is unknown. She spent her last decades in Auburn, New York, caring for the elderly poor, and is buried there with military honours.
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