Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
- Written by Kate Clifford Larson, Visiting Scholar Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878.
Library of Congress/Getty ImagesHarriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.
What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America.
“I had reasoned this out...