Myths and folk tales concerning Tubman’s life persist in spite of historical documentation and the publication of 21 st century biographies. Harriet Tubman’s struggle to secure freedom, equality, justice and self-determination for herself and others also brought her to the front lines of the Civil War in South Carolina, and, later, from her home base in Auburn, NY, activism demanding equal rights for women and minorities, fixing her firmly among our nation’s most enduring icons.
Though this first escape attempt failed, Tubman would soon strike out again this time successfully, alone, and embark on a decade battling slavery to liberate her family and friends on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Hastened by rumors of impending sale to satisfy creditors of Brodess’s estate, Tubman and her two brothers, Ben and Henry Ross, ran away to hoped-for-freedom beyond slavery’s borders. The death of her enslaver, Edward Brodess, six months earlier had marked a turning point in the transformation of Tubman from slave to free woman. On September 17, 1849, twenty-seven-year old Harriet Ross Tubman took her first hazardous steps toward self-liberation.
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