【美国人物志】 哈莉特·塔布曼（8/9）

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哈莉特·塔布曼（Harriet Tubman １８２２年?－１９１３年３月１０日）是美国废奴主义者，杰出的黑人废奴主义运动家。她本人就是一个逃跑的奴隶，帮助许多黑奴逃亡，被称为“黑摩西”或“摩西祖母”。美国废奴主义运动的领袖约翰·布朗称她为“塔布曼将军”。
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Harriet Tubman
President Abraham Lincoln

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Now that Harriet was free, she did not forget the hundreds of other slaves back in Maryland. During the next ten years, she led a much expanded Underground Railroad. She freed her parents, her sister, brothers and other family members. She found a home for her parents in Auburn, New York. Harriet traveled back and forth 18 times, helping about 300 slaves escape into free territory. She became an expert at hiding from slave hunters. At one time, anyone finding Harriet was promised 40,000 dollars for catching her -- dead or alive. The people she helped called her Moses. She had rescued them from slavery just as the biblical Moses rescued the Jews. Harriet found another way to fight slavery after the Civil War began in 1861. Seven southern states decided to separate from the United States, mainly over the issue of slavery. The northern states refused to let the United States of America break apart. After fighting began, Harriet Tubman went into enemy territory to spy for the North. She also served as a nurse. After four years of bloody fighting, the North won the war. President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863. There was no longer any need for Harriet to be Moses.