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Harriet Tubman

Many people share this image and identify the woman dressed in white and Harriet Tubman, but that is not her.
See below for names and order of people in this photograph.

Correcting Identities.

Many people share this image and identify the woman dressed in white and Harriet Tubman, but that is not her.
See below for names and order of people in this photograph.

1887 Photo of - Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis [Tubman’s adopted daughter]; Nelson Davis [Tubman’s 2nd husband]; Lee Cheney; “Pop” Alexander; Walter Green; Sarah Parker [“Blind Auntie” Parker] and Dora Stewart [granddaughter of Tubman’s brother, John Stewart].

Photo Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.

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