Harriet Tubman is an American political activist and abolitionist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and then went on 13 missions to save around 70 slaves, including family and friends, using a network of anti-regime activists. During the American Civil War, she served as a scout and armed spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the women's suffrage movement. Born as a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by various employers as a child. Early in her life, she suffered a head injury when an angry overseer threw a heavy metal weight while trying to hit another slave, but beat her instead. The injury had caused dizziness, pain and bouts of sleeplessness that lasted his life. After being injured, Tubman began to experience strange visions and vivid dreams, which she believed to be a harbinger of God.

During the Civil War, an escaped slave became an abolitionist and a Union spy, rescuing over 300 slaves via the Underground Railroad, a network of secret passageways and safe houses that supported runaway slaves. After the Civil War, she also pushed for women's suffrage.

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