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http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/id7.html On January 7, 1863, Tubman was given a requisition for one hundred dollars secret service money.

With these funds, she and her band of scouts supported themselves and bribed nervous informants, like slaves still living in Confederatecontrolled territory nearby, for crucial information. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande06.html

The Secret Six


One by one, Brown drew a small, select group of radical abolitionists, six men in all, who agreed to fund his ongoing fight against slavery

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After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn and continued her involvement in social issues, including the women's rights movement. In 1908, she established a home in Auburn for elderly and indigent blacks that later became known as the Harriet Tubman Home.
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Harriet Tubman residence, South Street, Fleming, New York, near the Auburn line. Tubman's home provided refuge to scores of homeless, sick, and needy men, women and children during the last fifty years of her life.
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