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What does Harriet Tubman mean when she says “I was a conductor on the underground railroad… I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.”

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C. she helped many enslaved people escape the South.

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What she means is that she had made 19 trips to Maryland, helped 300 people to freedom, yet she was never captured and didn’t fail to deliver her "passengers" to safety. As Tubman herself said, "On my Underground Railroad I [never] run my train off [the] track [and] I never [lost] a passenger." During these journeys she helped rescue people that were from her own family and people who weren’t from her own family. You can check her story in the America Library.
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