Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Harriet Ross Tubman Davis (b. circa 1822 - d. 1913)
MSA SC 5496-13562
Fled from Slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1849
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, 1850 - 1863

Sources:


Archival Sources -
 


Newspapers and Journals -

“A Female Conductor of the Underground Railroad.” Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser 5 June 1860.


Books:

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Random House, 2005.

Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom. New York: Arno Press, 1968.

Stegman, Carolyn B. Women of Achievement in Maryland History. University Park, MD : Women of Achievement in Maryland History, Inc., 2002.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company Inc., 1970.


Web-based:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South.  "Harriet, the Moses of Her People, Bradford, Sarah H."
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/harriet/harriet.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South. "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, Bradford, Sarah H."
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bradford/bradford.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libaries: Documenting the American South. "Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools Under the Auspices of the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society, Brawley, Benjamin Griffith."
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/brawley/brawley.html


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