Military
Harriet Tubman c. 1820–1913
In 1863, a woman led a military raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people in one night.
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Slavery & Emancipation
Henry “Box” Brown c. 1815–1897
In 1849, an enslaved man mailed himself to freedom.
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