The Life of Harriet Tubman

  • Harriet Tubman is born

    Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross as a slave
  • Escapes

    Harriet escapes her plantation using the Underground Railroad
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Tubman starts working with abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Thomas Garrett
  • General Tubman

    Harriet earns her nickname "General Tubman" from John Brown. A year later he was executed in a raid.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln is elected as President.
  • Civil War

    The Civil War begins. Tubman begins working as a nurse
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation is passed and slaves were set free in the Confederate states.
  • Civil War ends

  • First biography

    Sarah Hopkins Bradford writes Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
  • Suffragist

    Harriet begins advocating for women's suffrage
  • Harriet Tubman dies

    Harriet was 93 when she died from pneumonia