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Birth
Araminta Ross was born on March of 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents were Harriet Greene Ross and Ben Ross. She was separated from her family including her sisters and parents -
Started Working
Araminta started working as a house servant around when she was 5 or 6, her nickname was minty -
Harriet
Araminta changed her name to Harriet after her mother when she was 13 -
Her Head Injury
After 7 more years of working as a house servant she was then put to work in the fields when she was in her early teens. She was then hit by a really heavy object for refusing to find a field worker who had left his plantation without permission. She then unexpectedly had headaches and seizures for the rest of her life. -
Dreams
After the incident she then started having dreams and visions which she believed were from God who was telling her to free the enslaved -
Escaping
She had escaped with her brothers to Philadelphia and freed other relatives. Her brothers feared of being caught and went back. She used the underground Railroad to get to Philadelphia -
The Underground Railroad
Harriet started freeing slaves and safely guiding them to the north, when the Slave Fugitive Act was passed Harriet started taking freed slaves to Canada. She led about 300 freed slaves and led 19 escapes, she was determined to free the slaves she was called the "Moses of Her People." -
Bravery
She never lost a slave when she escaped and she never gave up when she was in danger, she was never caught. Her bravery and determination led her to bring people to freedom. She was so successful when freeing slaves that they put a 40,000$ bounty on her head. -
The Civil War
She fought on the Union side and she fought for the freedom of slaves, she was a nurse and she helped plan a raid. She and her fellow African Americans were spies. They found where the bombs and weapons were they were in the water. -
After the war
Harriet Tubman lived in New York after the war, she lived with her family and helped sick and the elderly, she also raised awareness for equal rights for all blacks including women. -
Death
She was 93 years old when she had died and she will always be remembered for her bravery when she was freeing the slaves on the Underground Railroad.