Smalls put on the captain’s uniform and a straw hat similar to that the captain wore. He became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and, after meeting with Queen Victoria for support, he established a learning center for former slaves in Dresden, Ontario. To be held against one’s will and sometimes forced to live in squalor and work from sunup to sundown, knowing the real possibility that families would be separated and cruel overseers would beat them, was a terrible fate — one that many tried to escape, and some succeeded and went on to become great successes. With him, she had two children, but being born to a slave mother they became Norcom’s slaves too, and he threatened to sell them if she refused his advances. Aside from emerging as one of the most effective abolitionists of her day, Tubman was also instrumental … Somerset received the support of notable abolitionist Granville Sharp as well as from five different lawyers who spoke at three different hearings between February and May. Among them, only a few have managed to escape to freedom before slavery was officially abolished. The daughter of a slave woman and her white master, she disguised herself as a white man, and her husband, William, posed as her body servant, as they made a dramatic and dangerous escape from Macon to Savannah by train in 1848, and then by steamship north. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery to a mixed-race mother. Therefore he is as old as Muhammad. Harriet Tubman suffered great physical abuse as a child from her masters. At the age of 20, she married a fellow slave named William Craft who saved some money when he was hired as a carpenter. The ‘Josiah Henson’ cabin, in Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1769, Stewart returned to England bringing Somerset with him. The best-known and most influential book by a freedom seeker was " The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," which was first published in 1845. In addition to providing the Union with ammunition, he also provided the captain’s codebook and a map of mines and torpedoes laid in Charleston’s harbor. Within a decade, she became the most well-known “conductor” of the infamous Underground Railroad. They were forced to move back north to Massachusetts where they continued their activism by helping freed blacks while her daughter educated them in the Jacobs’ newly established school, enabling them to take care of themselves. Notable people who gained or assisted others in gaining freedom via the Underground Railroad include: Henry "Box" Brown John Brown (abolitionist), who would later lead the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry. The most famous escape was by a Pat Reid and Airey Neave. 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