SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Harriet Tubman was a formerly enslaved 
abolitionist who guided about 70 people from slavery 
to freedom in 10 years. 
(2) Born in March 1822, Tubman was a nota-
ble abolitionist who not only freed herself, but also 
freed others from slavery. 
(3) Harriet Ross Tubman, born Araminta 
‘‘Minty’’ Ross, was born enslaved on the plantation 
of Anthony Thompson in Dorchester County, Mary-
land. 
(4) With the help of the Underground Railroad 
network, in the fall of 1849, Tubman escaped from 
Poplar Neck in Caroline County, Maryland, heading 
north to freedom in Pennsylvania. 
(5) With the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act 
as part of the Compromise of 1850, the operations 
to help enslaved persons escape became dangerous 
and she risked her life to rescue them from slavery. 
(6) Despite passage of the Compromise of 1850 
and the Fugitive Slave Act, Tubman continued her 
work, escorting her refugees to Canada instead. 
(7) It was during the 1850s that Tubman made 
13 trips back to Maryland, guiding approximately 70 
enslaved persons to the North, including family 
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members, and providing instruction to about 70 
more who found their way to freedom on their own. 
(8) Regardless of the arduous process of help-
ing fugitive enslaved persons escape through the Un-
derground Railroad, not a single person was recap-
tured under Tubman’s supervision. 
(9) During 1859, Tubman aided abolitionist 
John Brown by recruiting supporters for his raid on 
Harper’s Ferry, a planned insurrection against 
slaveholders in Virginia and Maryland. 
(10) In the beginning of the Civil War, Tubman 
served as a spy, cook, and nurse in South Carolina 
and Florida. 
(11) Tubman also recruited newly freed Afri-
can-American men to join regiments of African- 
American soldiers called United States Colored 
Troops. 
(12) In recognition of her abilities, Tubman 
served as an army scout and spy for Major General 
David Hunter and Colonel James Montgomery. Har-
riet Tubman was inducted into the Military Intel-
ligence Corps Hall of Fame. 
(13) Tubman distinguished herself as the first 
woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War, 
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the Combahee River Raid, resulting in more than 
700 enslaved persons in South Carolina being freed. 
(14) After the Civil War, Tubman frequently 
sheltered and fed newly freed enslaved persons at 
her home on South Street in Auburn, New York, 
which she purchased from Secretary of State Wil-
liam Henry Seward, even though she had little 
money herself. She found a means to an end by 
working as a domestic, selling produce from her gar-
den, taking in donations of food, loans from friends, 
and raising pigs on her farm. 
(15) Tubman became active in the women’s 
movement as early as 1860. She attended meetings 
and gave speeches in her home State of New York, 
as well as in Boston and Washington, D.C. 
(16) Tubman was an avid advocate for African- 
American women and their civil rights. In 1896, she 
was invited as a speaker at the first meeting of the 
National Association of Colored Women in Wash-
ington, D.C. 
(17) Although living in financial insecurity, 
Tubman transferred a 25-acre parcel of land to the 
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1903, 
which eventually became The Harriet Tubman 
Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes. At the 
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time, few social services existed for elderly and ill 
people of color. 
(18) Escaping slavery, risking everything to 
save her family and friends, aiding enslaved persons 
in escape from slavery, leading a military raid, 
championing the cause of women’s suffrage, advo-
cating for civil rights and access to health care, Har-
riet Tubman is an individual that has performed 
achievements that have had profound impacts on 
history and culture in the United States. 
SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS. 
(a) DENOMINATIONS.—In commemoration of Harriet 
Tubman, the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter referred 
to in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall mint and issue 
the following coins: 
(1) $5 GOLD COINS.—Not more than 50,000 $5 
coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 8.359 grams; 
(B) be struck on a planchet having a di-
ameter of 0.850 inches; and 
(C) contain at least 90 percent gold. 
(2) $1 SILVER COINS.—Not more than 400,000 
$1 coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 26.73 grams; 
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(B) be struck on a planchet having a di-
ameter of 1.500 inches; and 
(C) contain at least 90 percent silver. 
(3) HALF-DOLLAR
CLAD
COINS.—Not more 
than 750,000 half-dollar coins which shall— 
(A) weigh 11.34 grams; 
(B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and 
(C) be minted to the specifications for half- 
dollar coins contained in section 5112(b) of title 
31, United States Code. 
(b) LEGAL TENDER.—The coins minted under this 
Act shall be legal tender, as provided in section 5103 of 
title 31, United States Code. 
(c) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of sections 
5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all coins 
minted under this Act shall be considered to be numis-
matic items. 
SEC. 4. DESIGNS OF COINS. 
(a) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The designs of the coins 
minted under this Act shall be emblematic of the 
legacy of Harriet Tubman as an abolitionist. At 
least one obverse design shall bear the image of 
Harriet Tubman. 
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