Harriet Tubman · every age

What was Harriet Tubman doing at 74?

Escaped slavery at 27, then went back about 13 times

1. c. 1896

   Keynote speaker at a new Afro-American women's federation

   The National Federation of Afro-American Women. She also spoke for women's suffrage in New York, Boston and Washington.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. c. 1896

   Bid $1,215 at auction for a farm to house the aged poor

   Twenty-five acres next to her own land, for a home for indigent Black people.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Benjamin F. Powelson (1868), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source