Died: March 10 1913 in Auburn, New York aged 93.
Children: Gertie Davis [adopted]
Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland 1820. Her birth name was Araminta Ross but when she was 13 she took up her mothers name, Harriet.
It was hard being a slave, when she was only 6 years old she was loaned out to another family where she cared for a baby and the only thing she got to eat was table scraps.
When she was thirteen she received a severe head injury when a slave owner tried to throw a iron weight at his slave but unfortunately it hit her in the head. She said that her hair (which had never been brushed) saved her life.
Harriet first escaped with her two brothers but half way they decided to turn back and forced Harriet to come with them.
Harriet then escaped again in 1849 to Philadelphia but immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Very slowly group by group she brought relatives with her out of the city and gradually guided dozens of slaves to freedom.
Harriet was called 'the moses of her people' like in the bible she freed her people. Harriet freed hundreds of slaves before she freed herself.
The underground railroad was not a actual railroad but a number of safe homes [called stations] that hid slaves as they travelled north. The people that helped the slaves where called conductors.
Harriet was called 'the moses of her people' like in the bible she freed her people. Harriet freed hundreds of slaves before she freed herself.
The underground railroad was not a actual railroad but a number of safe homes [called stations] that hid slaves as they travelled north. The people that helped the slaves where called conductors.
The main reason that Harriet Tubman was never caught was because she was a woman everyone assumed they were looking for a man.
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