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Harriet Tubman Birth - Death
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married a black free slave named John Tubman
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how she got her name
married a black man named john tubman -
left maryland with two of her brothers Ben and Henry
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tubman recieved a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold
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receiving a warning
rather than remaining in the safety of the north tubman made it her mission to rescue her family and others living in slavery -
dynamics of escaping
the dynamics of escaping salvery changed in 1850 with the passage of fugitive slave law -
introduced to the abolitionist
tubman was introduced tothe abolitionist john brown who advocated the use of violence to disrupt and destroy the institution of slavery -
civil war
in 1869 she married a civil war veteran named Nelson Davis -
donated a parcel
in 1903 she donated a parcel of her land to the african methodist episcopal church in auburn -
age opening
tubman home for aged opened on this site in 1908