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Early life
She was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. Due to the fact that she was born into slavery, there isn't much recorded information about her early life. -
Early injury
Tubman was injured in her teens. It happened when she tried to save another slave from an angry overseer who threw an iron weight at the slave. It hit Tubman in the head. This would follow her for the rest of her life. She would soon begin to have blackouts and severe headaches that would make things rather difficult. I'm very amazed that she was able to make her future journeys with the condition. -
Marriage
When she was 24, she married a man named John Tubman. -
Escape
When Tubman was around 29, she escaped from slavery with assistance from a friendly white woman (The 1st Underground Raillroad conductor). -
The "Railroad"
That very next year Tubman went back to save: her sister and her sister's kids. When she went back for her husband, she found that he had taken another wife. She then set out to find more slaves who reqested freedom. -
Interesting tricks
Harriet Tubman would give a baby speical herbs to prevent it from crying if it would atract slave hunters' attention. -
Cool tricks
If the journey was long, she would take the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey. This would help them get further away in a shorter amount of time. -
Cool tricks
Another thing she did was she would have the slaves escape on Saturday so the wanted poster could not go into the paper until Monday. -
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE!
In 1856, Tubman was wanted for freeing slaves. The reward for her capture was $40,000. The modern equivalent is over $1 million! Wow! -
quotes
What I think she meant was they didn't know any other way to live. They were slaves in thier minds. -
Civil War
In the Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse, a scout, and a spy. (I'm surprised that we didn't talk about this in our Civil War unit.) -
The end of a Legacy
She died a very old woman of pneumonia in Auburn, New York. It is amazing to me that she lived to 93 years old while she was in danger of being killed so often. She could have died so many times, but her wits and sense of freedom helped her cheat death. -
North star
I like how she used the North star as a compass like Moses. -
Why she never lost a passenger
The reason Tubman carried a gun was so if a free slave wanted to go back, she would aim and say, "You'll be free or die. I've never lost a passenger." -
What can we learn From Tubman?
What can we learn from Mrs.Tubman? Good question, but an even better question is what can't we learn from this amazing lady? Well here's some things I've learned: When life knocks you down, It's up to you to decide wether or not to get back up again.
