Harriet Tubman

"I had crossed the line. I was free: but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."

Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820.-from PBS.org


...although I was really thinking about Rosa Parks.