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Noun: Tubman  túb-mun
  1. United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
    - Harriet Tubman

Type of: abolitionist, emancipationist

Encyclopedia: Tubman