1. Harriet tubman
As she once pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." ... She developed clever techniques that helped make her "forays" successful, including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn't be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying which might put the fugitives in danger. ... Harriet had made trips to rescues slaves nineteen...
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