In 2003, New York Governor George E. Pataki established March 10 as Harriet Tubman Day. Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1820, but escaped north to freedom in 1849. Instead of enjoying her newfound freedom, however, she returned south nineteen times to
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"Araminta Harriet Greene was born a slave in Maryland.
In 2003, historian Kate Clifford Larson wrote the first non-juvenile Tubman biography published in nine decades.
Harriet Tubman's "parents were from the Ashanti tribe of West Africa, and they worked as slaves on the Brodas plantation.
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