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Harriet Tubman photograph
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 | Subjects: Underground Railroad -- Massachusetts; Fugitive slaves; Women; Ohio History -- Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights;
Places: Boston (Massachusetts);
Collection: Wilbur H. Siebert Collection
Source: MSS 116 AV; Box 79, Folder 14
Item ID: OHS: AL03231.tif
Description: Photograph of Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913), who was a fugitive slave who returned to the South numerous times to abduct slaves and take them to freedom in the North. She led more than 300 slaves, generally through Delaware to Wilmington and Philadelphia. This cabinet card is from the H.G. Smith Studio in Boston, Massachusetts. The photograph was taken about 1887. It was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history.
Width: 2177 pixels
Height: 2000 pixels
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