Legacy of Harriet Tubman

[2][3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends,[4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

[5] A survey at the end of the 20th century named her as one of the most famous civilians in American history before the Civil War, third only to Betsy Ross and Paul Revere.

[11] The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, where Tubman worshipped while living in the town, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999.

[13] In 1937, a gravestone for Harriet Tubman was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs;[14] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

[15] The Harriet Tubman Home was abandoned after 1920, but was later renovated by the AME Zion Church and opened as a museum and education center.

Tubman is the subject of works of art including songs, novels, sculptures, paintings, movies, and theatrical productions.

Copies were subsequently installed in several other cities, including one at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia; it was the first statue honoring Tubman at an institution in the Old South.

[21] Step on Board, a bronze sculpture by artist Fern Cunningham was placed at the entrance to Boston's Harriet Tubman Park in 1999.

[28] American composer Nkeiru Okoye wrote Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom, a two-act opera first performed in 2014.

[33] In printed fiction, in 1948 Tubman was the subject of Anne Parrish's A Clouded Star, a biographical novel that was criticized for presenting negative stereotypes of African-Americans.

[34] A Woman Called Moses, a 1976 novel by Marcy Heidish, was criticized for portraying a drinking, swearing, sexually active version of Tubman.

These include dozens of schools,[55] streets and highways in several states,[57] and various church groups, social organizations, and government agencies.

[58] In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship ever named for a black woman.

[64] The Shade Room highlighted a Twitter user who captioned a photograph of the brawl with "The Nigga Navy docking the SS Harriet no Tubman to battle the Saltines in Montgomery, Alabama",[65] and a tweet celebrating the victory included an illustration of Tubman holding a folding chair like one used by a Black defender in the brawl.