Harriet tubman

Harriet Tubman Timeline

  • Harriet Tubman was born

  • Harriet sustains a head injury that will soon cause throbbing headaches and seizures

  • Harriet marries John Tubman

  • Harriet becomes an advocate for the underground railroad and the Women Suffrage Movement

  • Harriets master dies

  • Harriet Tubman flees to the North to escape slave status

  • Harriet risks being recaptured to help her family escape

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    Harriet saved as many as 200 hundred slaves and took them to Canada

  • Harriet begins her work in the civil war as a nurse

  • Harriet commands soldiers at Combahee River in South Carolina on an expedition that frees 700 slaves

  • Harriet marries Civil War veteran and former slave Nelson Davis

  • Harriet Tubman died