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operations was a slave escapee named



                                                                                                                                         Harriet Tubman.









                                                                                                                                         Harriet Tubman was a slave born



                                                                                                                                         escapee that would become one of




                                                                                                                                         the most famous “conductor” on the



                                                                                                                                         Underground Railroad. Tubman




            even led to some freed slaves being                                                                                          would be responsible for helping



            recaptured and resold back down in                                                                                           hundred of  slaves escape to freedom



            the South. All these acts were put                                                                                           through the Underground Railroad.




            in place due to the growing success                                                                                          Tubman would be one of  the bravest



            of  the Underground Railroad. One                                                                                            escapees as she would go back down




            of  the most famous activist and                                                                                             to the South even when she reached



            leaders in the Underground Railroad                                                                                          a free state up North. She returned
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