Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
-Born: Between 1820 and 1825 in Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S.A.
(Birth records were not kept for slaves and Tubman was born as a slave).
-Death: March 10th 1913, Auburn, New-York
-Family
Ben Ross (father): Ben was released from slavery at the age of forty-five.
Harriet Greene (mother): No details.
-Childhood: In Dorchester country, Tubman was often beaten and whipped by most of her slave owners. As a young child, she suffered a terrible head injury while trying to help another slave. She had a 2 or 3 pound heavy weight thrown and hit to the head. The injury caused disabling seizures, head aches, dream activity, and spells of hypersomnia (that occurred her whole life).
-Influence: Her mother influenced her to be brave and resist when a white man tried to take Tubman’s brother. As soon as he approached the house, Tubman’s mother threatened to “split his head open”.
She was very religious because she thought that God was protecting her. She always had dreams because of her head injury which she believed were calls from Him.
-In 1849, she escaped slavery and went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but then returned to Maryland to try and save her family. She was always thinking about her family and friends when she was in Philadelphia. “My mother, my father, my brother and my sister were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free.” Later on as a spy, she brought one group of family at a time to Philadelphia, and she also rescued a lot of other relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts, etc). She would travel at night time to lower the chances of getting caught with all of the slaves. “Never lost a passenger” she says. She saved over five-dozen slaves during that time.
-“Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, a humanitarian and a union spy during the U.S civil war after escaping from slavery. At first, she was a cook and a nurse, and then she went to an armed scout and a spy. She made 13 missions to rescue over
-Born: Between 1820 and 1825 in Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S.A.
(Birth records were not kept for slaves and Tubman was born as a slave).
-Death: March 10th 1913, Auburn, New-York
-Family
Ben Ross (father): Ben was released from slavery at the age of forty-five.
Harriet Greene (mother): No details.
-Childhood: In Dorchester country, Tubman was often beaten and whipped by most of her slave owners. As a young child, she suffered a terrible head injury while trying to help another slave. She had a 2 or 3 pound heavy weight thrown and hit to the head. The injury caused disabling seizures, head aches, dream activity, and spells of hypersomnia (that occurred her whole life).
-Influence: Her mother influenced her to be brave and resist when a white man tried to take Tubman’s brother. As soon as he approached the house, Tubman’s mother threatened to “split his head open”.
She was very religious because she thought that God was protecting her. She always had dreams because of her head injury which she believed were calls from Him.
-In 1849, she escaped slavery and went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but then returned to Maryland to try and save her family. She was always thinking about her family and friends when she was in Philadelphia. “My mother, my father, my brother and my sister were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free.” Later on as a spy, she brought one group of family at a time to Philadelphia, and she also rescued a lot of other relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts, etc). She would travel at night time to lower the chances of getting caught with all of the slaves. “Never lost a passenger” she says. She saved over five-dozen slaves during that time.
-“Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, a humanitarian and a union spy during the U.S civil war after escaping from slavery. At first, she was a cook and a nurse, and then she went to an armed scout and a spy. She made 13 missions to rescue over