'''Harriet Ross''', later known as Harriet Tubman, was an escaped [[slave]] and [[abolitionist]] who played an important role in the [[Underground Railroad]].
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'''Harriet Ross''', later known as Harriet Tubman, was an escaped [[slave]] and [[abolitionist]] who played an important role in the [[Underground Railroad]]. According to ''Christianity Today'': "Tubman's friends and fellow abolitionists claimed that the source of her strength came from her faith in God as deliverer and protector of the weak. "I always tole God," she said, "'I'm gwine [going] to hole stiddy on you, an' you've got to see me through.'"<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/activists/tubman.html Harriet Tubman - bio]</ref>