# Harriet Tubman Abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad who escaped slavery and returned south repeatedly to lead others to freedom, becoming the most famous "conductor" in the network's history. During the Civil War she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the Union Army — the first woman to lead an armed raid in American military history (the Combahee River Raid, 1863). She later campaigned for [[Suffrage]]. Tubman became a [[Culture War]] flashpoint when the Obama administration announced plans to place her portrait on the twenty-dollar bill, replacing [[Andrew Jackson]]. The Trump administration stalled the redesign, and the issue became a proxy battle over whose history gets honored. [[Frederick Douglass]], another abolitionist icon, receives similar selective appropriation in modern political rhetoric. *Stub — expand with: Underground Railroad operations, Combahee River Raid, $20 bill timeline, relationship to John Brown, post-war activism.*