In the immediate after math of the Civil War, Tubman worked to establish schools for free men in South Carolina--while she never learned to read and write, she appreciated the value of education for the future of freedom. Tubman welcomed several children into her own home and raised them as if they were her own. She also provided shelter and support for a number of aged, impoverished, former slave.
To finance her own living and her support of others, she worked with Sarah Hopkins Bradford to publish Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. The publication was initially financed by abolitionists, including Wendell Phillips and Gerrit Smith, John Brown, and Elizabeth Cody Stanton
After the War, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York, and continued to help black forge new lives in freedom. She cared for her parents and other poor relatives, turning her residency into the Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes. Lack of money continued to be a pressing problem, and she financed the home by selling copies of her biography and giving speeches. Twelve miles from Seneca Falls, Tubman helped Auburn to remain a center of activity in support of women rights. With her home down the road, she remained in contact with her friends, William and Frances Seward.
Tubman also worked with her friend Susan B. Anthony om women Suffrage and toured to speak about her experiences as "Moses." Queen Victoria invited her to England for the Queen's birhday, and sent Tubman a silver medal.
In 1886, Mrs. Bradford wrote, with Tubman's help, a second book, Harriet the Moses of Her People, a full scale biography of her to further provide for her support. In the 1890's, having lost herbattle to get a military pension on her own, she was able to collect apension as widow of U.S veteran Nelson Davis.