Jean Foster
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Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Young Harriet Tubman
A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavement in the Southern United States to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Pauline
A young Southern belle becomes the mistress of a magnificent plantation.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Ellen Allenby
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.