"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
— Harriet Tubman
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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Tubman made this declaration at a suffrage convention in New York in 1896, near the end of her life, in one of her few documented public speeches. She led approximately thirteen rescue missions over a decade as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, beginning in 1849, guiding around seventy people to freedom. The remark — delivered with characteristic precision and pride — is among the most directly verified of her attributed statements.
Source
Suffrage Convention, New York, 1896