1. cartermagazine: Today In History ‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’ “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman (photo: Harriet Tubman) - CARTER Magazine

    cartermagazine:

    Today In History

    ‘Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina and freed nearly 800 slaves on this date June 2 1863. Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.’

    “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman

    (photo: Harriet Tubman)

    - CARTER Magazine

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