Harriet Tubman was a true American heroine. She was born (0) into slavery in Maryland in 1820.
Fearing being sold to another owner in the deep South, (26)
the age of 29 she fled to Philadelphia, where slavery had already been abolished, leaving her family behind. The following year, she returned, leading her sister and two children to freedom.
Over the next decade, she made twelve more trips, along (27)
was known as the ‘Underground Railroad’:
a network of people who (28)
shelter escaping slaves.
During this time, she settled 70 enslaved people (29)
Canada, including her parents, whom she later placed on a small farm she bought in New York State. During the American Civil War, Tubman put the skills she had learned to good use, acting as a scout and spy for the Union Army.
After the war, Tubman lived on her farm, (30)
was a refuge for elderly people and orphans. She died, aged over 90, in 1912, but her face will soon appear on the US $20 bill.
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