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Harriet as a kid
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery her exact birth date is unknown. Harriet's name at birth was Araminta Ross and had 10 another siblings. She was hired as a nursemaid for a little baby. -
Harriet's Husband
In 1844 Harriet was 25 and married John Tubman.The marriage was not good John threatened to sell her south. Harriet took Johns last name and when she left her husband told her master -
Harriet's Escape
Harriet got help from her neighbors on a piece of paper that told her the houses to stop. She road in wagons and with random people. Harriet got a job to help pay to free slaves. In 1850 she helped escaped the first slaves. -
Under ground railroad
Harriet knew all the routes to free territory. She took a oath so the under ground railroad would be kept secret. She even help her brother and his friends by going across the river to Thomas Garret. She took 19 trips to the south and helped about 300 slaves and did not lose a single person. -
Harriet's bounty
Harriet helped so many people that the slave called this the land of Egypt to freedom and she got called Moses. She had a $40,000 bounty that was posted. If anybody found her in the state of Maryland itself said they would give a 12,000 reward. -
The most daring rescue
Harriet went back to help her elderly father Ben Ross. She bought a train ticket for the middle of the day which was very risky. Then she bought a horse and stuff to make a buggy and took that to her father and mother and then Thomas Garret made there passage to Canada. -
Civil war
Tubman enlisted in the union army as a contraband nurse. She nursed the sick and wounded back to help and treated her patients with medicine from roots. She never caught a diseases from any of the patients that she helped. -
Harriet's Death
Harriet died on March 10 1913 she died from pheumonia. Before she died she gave her home to the elderly of the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She was buried with military rites in fort hill Cemetery not far from her house.
