Harriet Tubman was a major abolitionist in American history who helped bring hundreds of African Americans out of slavery in the South to the North along the underground railroad. During the Civil War Tubman was an abolitionist who worked as a spy for the Union Army to help the war effort.
Answer:
Their name does come from the Dorsetshire village of Tolpuddle, the place where the six farm workers were reported by a landowner of maintaining a secret connection with the union called Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. They are also called martyrs because their imprisonment made them popular heroes believed to have suffered by a just cause. They spent two years in an Australian jail before being released in 1837.
Explanation:
A martyr is someone who dies for a cause, and even though these men didn´t die, they did suffer greatly and became a symbol of the workers´ struggles.