Until her death in 1913, she ran a shelter in Auburn, New York, where she lived down the road from her friend William Seward.  
She is at the center of Anne Parish's novel Clouded Star, while Sarah Hopkins Bradford wrote one of the first books about her.  She suffered narcolepsy throughout her life as a result of a blow to the head she suffered at the age of 12.  Until her death in 1913, she ran a shelter in Auburn, New York, where she lived down the road from her friend William Seward.  During the Civil War she worked as a nurse at Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis would later be imprisoned, having ceased to perform a task that required her to go from Maryland to Ontario.  FTP, name this African-American woman, who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom as a conductor on the underground railroad.
She is at the center of Anne Parish's novel Clouded Star, while Sarah Hopkins Bradford wrote one of the first books about her.  
Harriet Tubman