Quotes from Catherine Clinton

told someone that the slave had disappeared so quickly that he "must have gone on an underground road." Allegedly this was the origin of the nickname Underground Railroad.1

When her voice is forever stilled, her soul, like the soul of him whom she calls her dearest friend, will later be 'marching on.

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, held in 1904.

Simultaneously, an Auburn banker named Charles P. Wood prepared a narrative of Tubman's war service, with an appendix of available documentation. Copies are still on file at the National Archives.

Abductors were a highly skilled and rare breed of UGRR conductor.15

Months before, Lincoln had been forced to slap down another Union general for jumping the gun on emancipation. In his jurisdiction in Missouri, General John C. Frémont declared martial law and abolished slavery in August 1861.

Congress passed a Confiscation Act in July 1862, which "freed all slaves whose masters were rebels," and a Militia Act, which allowed these "forever free" blacks to be enlisted by the military as paid laborers.

Sea Island blacks spoke in the Gullah dialect of their forebears (a blend of African languages that was a distinctive patois).

Three out of five Civil War soldiers who died during the war were killed by disease unrelated to wounds.

The Harriet Tubman Home became the only charity outside New York City dedicated to the shelter and care of African Americans in the state. The main brick building, John Brown Hall, also known as the John Brown Infirmary