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Harriet Tubman



Theme: Black History Month



“Harriet Tubman”
Harriet Tubman was a strong woman who fight all her life for the freedom, even if she didn’t receive any type of education she gave all of her only for the black people freedom, she is one of the most important woman in the United States history
Harriet Tubman made a big change in all the history because she passed off bea slave to became into a hero for all the slaves she rescues.

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820, she has no birthday date because she born in slavery and the slave owner didn’t record her birthday, and her original name is “Araminta Ross”. She has born in a plantation near Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was the 11th child of Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene; her parents werealso slaves working for Edward Brodas the slave owner.
Because she was a slave Harriet education opportunity was denied, just because the slave owner didn’t want their slaves know how to write or read.
Harriet began working when she was really young. Her first job was when she has 5 years old. She was sent away from home to another plantation, checking muskrat traps in icy cold rivers. She quicklybecame too sick to work and was returned, malnourished and suffering from the cold exposure. Once she recovered, she was loaned out to another plantation, working as a nurse to the planter's infant child. By the age of 12, she was working as a field hand, plowing and hauling wood. At 13, while defending a fellow slave who tried to run away, her overseer struck her in the head with a two-poundweight. This resulted in recurring narcoleptic seizures, or sleeping spells, that plagued her rest of her life.
Harriet was married twice; her first marriage was in 1844 when she has 25 years old, she get married with John Tubman a freeman, she gained permission to marry him from her owners and lived with him in his cabin, but she was required to continue working for her master. When Harriet toldJohn of her dreams of one day gaining her freedom, he told her that she would never be free and, if she tried running away, he would turn her in. On one of her first return visits to Maryland, Harriet went to John's cabin in hopes of getting him to go north with her. She found that he had taken another wife.
Later in 1869, she married Nelson Davis and she never had any children.
Harriet hadbravely won her freedom, but she realize how alone she was, she made a vow that she would help her family and friends win their freedom as well. She went to Philadelphia, found work cooking, laundering and scrubbing, and saved money to finance rescue trips. She became involved with the cities large and active anti-slavery organizations and with organizers of the Underground Railroad, a secret networkthrough which slaves were helped in escaping from bondage in the South to freedom in the North and Canada.
Harriet freed over 300 blacks from slavery. Her name quickly spread throughout the slave quarters and abolitionist societies who offered $40,000 for her capture. But Harriet always evaded slave catchers and would not quit.  As for her family, Harriet successfully rescued her sister in 1850,her brother in 1851, her other three brothers in 1854, and her parents in 1857.  For her parents, she purchased a home in Auburn, New York, from Senator William H. Seward of New York, an advocate of hers.  In the 12 years from her escape in 1849 to the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad became the most dominant force of abolitionism.
During the Civil Waron1861-1865, Harriet Tubman served with the Union Army as a cook, laundress, nurse, scout, and spy behind Confederate lines. In 1862, she moved to Beaufort, South Carolina when it was occupied by the Union Army, and with several missionary teachers, helped hundreds of Sea Islander slaves transition from bondage to freedom. She also undertook scouting and spying missions, identifying potential...