Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.

Gregory Allen Howard, the screenwriter of Harriet, this month’s biopic of Tubman’s life, recalled the reaction to his script in 1994. “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting ...

As the acclaimed slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman ... appeared as a character in several movies and operas, a standalone film dedicated solely to Tubman’s life has yet to be made.