✊🏿ap african american studies review

Harriet Tubman

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An enslaved African American who escaped to freedom and became one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad, leading approximately 80 enslaved people to freedom and serving as a spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.

AP course connection

Topic 2.20: 2.20 Race to the Promised Land: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

Unit 2