2007-04-14 10:48:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I believe all her trips were to and from MD to PA, and, after the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, to Canada. The 300 people she conducted to freedom were often members of her extended family. I couldn't find a source telling of her last trip, but this quote discusses one of the last trips she took:
On the road between Syracuse and Rochester, would be found a number of sympathetic Quakers and other abolitionists settled at Auburn. Here also was the home of US Senator and former New York State Governor William H. Seward. Sometime in the mid-1850s, Tubman met Seward and his wife Frances. Mrs. Seward provided a home for Tubman's favorite niece, Margaret, after Tubman helped her to escape from Maryland. In 1857, the Sewards provided a home for Tubman, to which she relocated her parents from St. Catharines. This home was later sold to her for a small sum, and became her base of operations when she was not on the road aiding fugitives from slavery, and speaking in support of the cause.
2007-04-14 10:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by KCBA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1860 Tubman grew tired of the lecture circuit and made her last trip as an Underground Railroad conductor. On this trip, she led a party of six to Philadelphia.
2007-04-14 18:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, I hope you know the Underground Railroad was NOT a real railroad with tracks and trains. It was basically a "secret" set of pathways, hidden trails and safe places on the journey North or East where runaway slaves could consider themselves relatively safe from their hunters or from bounty hunters who were rewarded for re-capturing them and returning them to their "owners". Ms. Tubman did not actually create or "found" the Underground Railroad". She made it famous in her speeches and writings, and encouraged slaves who were willing to take life-threatening chances to seek their freedom to try and meet that worthy goal. I don't know where Ms. Tubman ended up when she passed away, but I'm sure it was to a better world than the one she inhabited.
2007-04-14 17:52:48 · answer #3 · answered by andromedasview@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, I don't knowbthe answer but on the website www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman . there is a lot of interesting information.
2007-04-14 18:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by sunnydays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she made it to freedom.
2007-04-14 17:56:41 · answer #5 · answered by Scotty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heaven
2007-04-14 17:51:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋