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Harriet Tubman childhood
Harriet Tubman was born 1825 in Chester County she was born right into slavery. At the age 5 she was hired to be a baby sister for her slave owner kids. -
Harriet Tubman escapee
Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous on the Underground Railroad. -
Escapes From Slavery
She Escaped from plantation then she change her name because if her slave other came they wouldn't know it was her and if she was caught she wold beat. -
How she helped end slavery
In addition to leading more than 300 fugitive slaves to freedom, Harriet Tubman helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by aiding the Union during the American Civil War. -
underground railroad
between 1850 and 1860, Tubman made 19 trips from the South to the North following the network known as the Underground Railroad. -
orphang for blacks
After the Civil War Tubman settled in Auburn and began taking in orphans and the elderly, a practice that eventuated in the Harriet Tubman Home for Indigent blacks. -
Joined
In May of 1862 Tubman traveled to South Carolina where she joined Dr Henry K. Durand the Director of the freedmans hospital at Port Royal. -
rail road
Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. -
her lead
Tubman became the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States in what is known as the Combahee Ferry Raid. -
lasting impact
Even today she is being talk about still they talk about her being on the 20 dollar bill in 2020.
