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Portrait or photograph of Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman , full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York

Virtual Memorial

Harriet Tubman

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Harriet Tubman, remembered for Underground Railroad, Abolition, Civil rights.

c. 1822 - 1913Auburn, New York, United States
Portrait or photograph of Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 – March 10, 1913), far left, with family and neighbors, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, NY.
Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 – March 10, 1913), far left, with family and neighbors, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, NY. Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis {Watson} (adopted Photographer William H. Cheney, South Orange, NJ, Bettman/Corbis, through The New York Times photo archive, via their online store, here ( archive ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Harriet Tubman Is Remembered

Harriet Tubman is remembered for underground railroad, abolition, civil rights. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Harriet Tubman.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Auburn, New York, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Harriet Tubman's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

Photos

Portrait or photograph of Harriet Tubman: A woodcut image of Harriet Tubman

A woodcut image of Harriet Tubman

John G. Darby, illustrator; W.J. Moses, printer; stereotyped by Dennis Bro's & Co., Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman , full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New YorK

Harriet Tubman , full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New YorK

Unknown author Unknown author, Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: Illus. in JK1881 .N357 sec. 16, No. 9 NAWSA Coll [Rare Book RR], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman , full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York

Harriet Tubman , full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York

Unknown author Unknown author, Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: Illus. in JK1881 .N357 sec. 16, No. 9 NAWSA Coll [Rare Book RR], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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