By Nathan Irvin Huggins
Describes the lifetime of the full of life abolitionist, together with her origins as a slave in Maryland, her position as a conductor for the Underground Railroad, her carrier to the Union throughout the Civil conflict, and her function in constructing an old-age domestic for Afro-Americans.
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