Harriet Tubman

 At the time of Harriet Tubman's all African American people where being enslaved by white slave owners. The reason that this is sighnificant is because she was born into slavery so she knows how hard it was to live through that and that is why she came up with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret corperation that was created by Harriet Tubman to help captured slaves get out of slavery. She was known for freeing thousands of slaves hence her quote "I freed a thousand slaves and I could have freed a thousand more if I only knew that they were slaves.