All times in UTC ·
Dashed edge = started before, or continues beyond, this day
Events on Monday 17 September 1849 1
1849Harriet Tubman escapes slaveryTubman flees a Maryland plantation to freedomHarriet Tubman escaped enslavement in Maryland and made her way north to Pennsylvania. She would go on to return to the South repeatedly as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding dozens of enslaved people to freedom. Her escape marked the beginning of her career as an abolitionist.