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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· c. 1868β1869
This photograph was taken after the war. I am wearing my best dress. I look like a respectable woman, which I was. People are sometimes surprised by this β they expect someone who spent years in swamps and back roads to look like a fugitive. I was a fugitive. I was also a spy, a nurse, a soldier, and a conductor. I was many things. I dressed carefully for the photograph because I wanted posterity to see all of them.
β Harriet Tubman, as recalled by Sarah Bradford, Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886). Photograph attributed to Benjamin F. Powelson, c. 1868β69.
19th Century