A famous quote by Harriet Tubman is “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed more if only they knew they were slaves.” Harriet Tubman was a slave herself; therefore, no one knew the exact date she was born. Researchers suspect she must have been born around 1820. She grew up on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She did slave labor with her eleven brothers and sisters because she did not get an education. Harriet Tubman escaped the plantation in 1849, which led to her passion to help free slaves. Harriet Tubman dedicated her life to freeing slaves from the south. She would use the Underground Railroad to transport the slaves to the north, freeing thousands of slaves. The Underground Railroad was a transportation system for