Harriet+Tubman

** By Destinei Vieira **
 * Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 **

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Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 as a slave in Maryland’s Dorchester County with the name “Araminta Ross”. She began working as a slave very young, around the ages of 5 and 6, she started as a house servant. Then at about age 7 she began working in the fields. Tubman was always looking out for other people and was willing to stick up for anyone. In Tubman’s early teen years she stood in front of a door to protect a fellow slave from an angry overseer. The overseer got upset and through a 2lbs weight towards the slave it didn’t quite make it, it fell short and hit Tubman in the head. She never fully recovered and suffered from spells in which she would fall into deep sleeps. In 1844 she married a free black man named John Tubman. She took his last name, and then later changed her first name to Harriet after her mother. In 1849 is when she has the idea to runaway, the thought came to mind because she was in fear that her, along with all the other slaves on the plantation would be sold. With the help of a friendly white woman she followed the North Star until she reached Philadelphia. That’s when she began to work and save her money. The following year she returned back to Maryland to help free her sister and her sister’s two kids. Once again she made the trip back to the south to save her brother and two other men. The 3rd time she went back, she went to save her husband only to see that he already re-married. She didn’t care; she helped other slaves looking for freedom instead. She returned to south over and over again, each time creating better techniques. Every time she would go to save a slave she would leave with them on a Saturday night because missing slaves couldn’t be posted in the newspaper until Monday morning. She always carried a drug on her to use on babies just in case they would begin to cry and endanger them. Tubman also carried a gun she would use on the slaves to tell them “you’ll be free or die”. By 1856 Tubman had a $40,000 reward from the South. By 1860 she had already made 19 trips to the South to free slaves, she made a very challenging trip which was to free both her 70 year old parents. Tubman took part in many antislavery meetings, on her way to a meeting in 1860 she stopped to help a slave who had been captured in Troy, New York. In the Civil War Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, nurse, and at some points even a spy.After the War she settled in Auburn, New York where she spent the rest of her life and died in 1913.

- Sh - she sold pies and rootbeer to make money while she was in the union - He - her real name wasn’t Harriet - Sh - she died of pneumonia not old age. - He - her nickname was Moses because she was constantly going to Maryland to rescue slaves
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 * Bibliography **

"Harriet Tubman." //PBS: Public Broadcasting Service//. PBS Online. Web. 07 Mar. 2011. .

Larson, Kate C. "Harriet Tubman Life." //Harriet Tubman Life//. Dec. 2003. Web. 07 Mar. 2011. .

"Harriet Tubman - Leading Slaves into Freedom." //Inventors//. 2011. Web. 07 Mar. 2011. .

WOMEN IN HISTORY. "Harriett Tubman Biography." //Lakewood Public Library (Lakewood, Ohio)//. 2011. Web. 07 Mar. 2011. .

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