Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a slaver born in 1820 or 1821. It is not exactly known because she is a slave and most slave owners do not keep records of their slave’s birthdates. She was born in Buck town, Maryland. At age 5, she was sent to work in another plantation but was sent back because she was too sick to work. Once she recovered from her sickness, she was sent to another plantation to work as a nurse to the planter’s infant child. At age 12, she worked plowing and hauling wood as a field hand. Harriet married a man name john Tubman at the age of 25 in 1844. He was a freeman.  Harriet always wanted to be free. She told john that she wanted to be free just like him and he stated that she will never be free and if she tried to run he would turn her in. Harriet was lucky because her owners gave her permission to marry john and allowed her to live in a cabin with him.

Harriet was known as “mosses” to many slaves because she led over 300 blacks from the south (slavery) to the north (freedom). In 1849, after her master died and heard a rumor that two of her brothers had been sold to a chain gang that she run away from the plantation in the middle of the night and used the north start to free land in Pennsylvania.  Her other brothers had left with her that night but returned to the plantation because they were too scared. Her ambition was to help her family and friends win freedom as well.

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Information: http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/tubm-har.htm (Women in History: Living Vignettes of Notable Women Form U.S. history)

Picture 1: http://gardenofpraise.com/images/tubman2.jpg (This is a picture or Harriet Tubman herself)

Picture 2: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/images/harriettubman.jpg ( This is a picture of Harriet getting throw the underground railroad)