Harriet Tubman · Harriet Tubman: The Road Back

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“The reprieve was one moment. The work was the rest of his life.”

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Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, Union scout, and suffragist. A memento mori obituary comic centered on Survived a severe head injury from an iron weight while enslaved, then escaped and repeatedly returned to rescue others.

Citable Summary

Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: Survived a severe head injury from an iron weight while enslaved, then escaped and repeatedly returned to rescue others.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including National Park Service; Encyclopaedia Britannica; National Women’s History Museum; National Park Service — Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.

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This comic follows Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, Union scout, and suffragist.

The story turns on Survived a severe head injury from an iron weight while enslaved, then escaped and repeatedly returned to rescue others, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes National Park Service; Encyclopaedia Britannica; National Women’s History Museum; National Park Service — Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.

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National Park Service
Encyclopaedia Britannica
National Women’s History Museum
National Park Service — Harriet Tubman National Historical Park

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