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Statue of Harriet Tubman (Salisbury, Maryland) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 1 May 2016 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Harriet Tubman. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Nominated for second appearance at TFA

Since most of the "top contributor" editors for this article are either long inactive or seem to edit only occasionally these days, I wanted to post a note here that I have nominated the article for a second appearance as Today's Featured Article on September 17, the 170th anniversary of her escape from slavery. You can see more details and comment on the nomination at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Harriet Tubman. --RL0919 (talk) 22:33, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Number of freed slaves

I've seen in other texts where Harriet Tubman is said to have freed almost 300 slaves. What is the origination of the number 100 in the wiki page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vcw2121 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The number given in the article is approximately 70 that she led to freedom herself, and another 50 or 60 that she provided instructions for escaping. Both numbers are cited to Kate Larson's 2004 biography of Tubman. As to other numbers, it isn't discussed in the article, but there were stories told about Tubman that magnified her accomplishments. These stories are not conisdered entirely accurate by modern historians, so we use the best numbers given in reliable sources such as Larson's book. --RL0919 (talk) 01:06, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]