After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family.
But I was free, and they should be free." For 11 years Tubman returned again and again to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rescuing some 70 slaves in 13 expeditions, including her three other brothers, Henry, Ben, and Robert, their wives and some of their children.. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later.
After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family