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- Born on March,1822
- Tubman was married twice one to John Tubman and another time to Nelson Davis
- Tubman Died of a pneumonia
- Tubmans parents were Harriet Ross Greene and Tubmans father was Ben Ross
- Harriet died on March,10,1913
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- She was born in Dorchester County,Maryland
- Harriet Tubman adopted one kid name Gertie
- When Tubman was little her mother was assigned to the big house
- Tubman was beaten brutaly by her master she suffered from a serious head injury
- Tubmans owner tried to find her a new owner but Tubman was ill so nobody wanted her
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- Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist.
- She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
- She was born in Maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849.
- she returned many times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system.
- She led hundreds to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
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- Harriet Tubman was born to enslaved parents in Dorchester County, Maryland,
- The line between freedom and slavery was hazy for Tubman and her family
- Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849, fleeing to Philadelphia. Tubman decided to escape following a bout of illness and the death of her owner in 1849.
- Tubman feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate as a sickly slave of low economic value. She initially left Maryland with two of her brothers
- A notice published in the Cambridge Democrat offered a $300 reward for the return of Araminta (Minty), Harry and Ben.
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- Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad to travel nearly 90 miles to
- She crossed into the free state of Pennsylvania with a feeling of relief and awe
- In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold
- his law stated that escaped slaves could be captured in the North and returned to slavery
- n December 1851, Tubman guided a group of 11 fugitives northward.
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- in April 1858, Tubman was introduced to the abolitionist John Brown,
- In early 1859, abolitionist Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York.
- Tubman quickly became an armed scout and spy.
- Tubman Home in Auburn and the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge serve as monuments to her life.
- When she died, Tubman was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn.
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- tubman decided to help the Union Army because she wanted freedom for all of the people who were forced into slavery, not just the few she could help by herself.
- Tubman helped Colonel James Montgomery plan a raid to free slaves from plantations along the Combahee
- Harriet was born a slave and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore where the lines between slavery and freedom were often blurred
- It was not unusual for families in this area to include both free and enslaved members
- John Tubman was a free black man
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- Harriet would return to Maryland many times over the next decade to rescue both family and non-famly members from the bondages of slavery.
- Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom. In all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
- Tubman's work was a constant threat to her own freedom and safety. Slave holders placed a bounty for her capture and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was an ever-present danger
- imposing severe punishments on any person who assisted the escape of a slave.
- Harriet wore many hats:
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- She was an active proponent of women's suffrage and worked alongside women such as side Susan B. Anthony.
- During the civil war, Harriet also worked for the Union Army as a cook, a nurse and even a spy.
- Harriet was acquainted with leading abolitionists of the day, including John Brown who conferred with "General Tubman" about his plans to raid Harpers Ferry.
- Harriet had one daughter, Gertie, whom she and her second husband (Nelson Davis) adopted after the Civil war.
- Harriet suffered life-long headaches, seizures and had vivid dreams as a result of a traumatic head injury
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- These same symptoms gave her powerful visions that she ascribed to God and helped guide her on many trips to the North while leading others to freedom.
- These same symptoms gave her powerful visions that she ascribed to God and helped guide her on many trips to the North while leading others to freedom.
- ust before Harriet's death in 1913 she told friends and family, "I go to prepare a place for you." She was buried with military honors in Fort Hill Cemetery in New York.
- During her early life, as a young girl, she lived in harsh conditions and violence and a skull fracture that nearly killed her and affected her for the rest of her life
- she refused to live in under the oppression of slavery and found the courage to liberate herself and those she loved.
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