49 - Maryland, Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman holds my heart for a woman that fought for all people. She protected her family and friends. I can't imagine an America without people like Harriet Tubman fighting for people. Maryland accepted the Nineteenth Amendment on March 29, 1941. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland. She was thoroughly abused as a slave, with scars as reminders for the hardship she was treated for her entire life. In 1849, she escaped without her family to Pennsylvania. As she crossed the state line into the free Northern state, she is quoted as saying, “When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” Once free by traveling through the Underground Railroad, she felt she needed to return to free her remaining family and friends. Laws constantly changed through the times making it harder, and allow...