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Image: Harriet Tubman, with rescued slaves, New York Times

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Description: Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 – March 10, 1913), far left, with family and no neighbors, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, NY. Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis {Watson} (adopted daughter born 1874, died ?) behind Tubman; Nelson Davis (husband and 8th USCT veteran); Lee Chaney (neighbor's child); "Pop" John Alexander (elderly border in Tubman's home); Walter Green (neighbor's child); Blind "Aunty" Sarah Parker (elderly border); Dora Stewart (great-niece and granddaughter of Tubman's brother Robert Ross aka John Stewart). [Note: Dora Stewart is sometimes cropped out of other versions of this photograph] Source: Kate Clifford Larson
Title: Harriet Tubman, with rescued slaves, New York Times
Credit: Bettman/Corbis, through The New York Times photo archive, via their online store, here
Author: Photographer William H. Cheney, South Orange, NJ
Permission: Public Domain
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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