harriet tumbman
Harriet Tubman
So today I am going to tell you about Harriet Tubman. harriet tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820 no one really knows the exact date she was born. At the age of five or six,she began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. While she was still in her early teens, she suffered an injury that would follow her for the rest of her life. Always ready to stand up for someone else, Harriet bloocked a doorway to protect another field hand from an angry overseer. The overseer picked up and threw a two-pound weight at the feild hand. It fell short, striking Tubman on the haed. She never recovered from the blow, which subjected her to spells in which she would fall into deep sleep.
Around 1844 she married a free black man named John Tubman and took his last name.( She was born Araminta Ross she later changed her first name to Harriet, afther her mother. ) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other salves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away. She set out one night on foot. With some assistance from a friendly white woman she was on her way.She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon afther Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money. The following year she returend to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two childern to fredom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon afther to rescue her brother and two other men.On her third return she went afther her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to North.
Harriet returned to the South over and over again. She devised clever techniques that helped make her succesful including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey leaving on a Saturday night, since runway notices couldn't be placed in the newspapers until
So today I am going to tell you about Harriet Tubman. harriet tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820 no one really knows the exact date she was born. At the age of five or six,she began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. While she was still in her early teens, she suffered an injury that would follow her for the rest of her life. Always ready to stand up for someone else, Harriet bloocked a doorway to protect another field hand from an angry overseer. The overseer picked up and threw a two-pound weight at the feild hand. It fell short, striking Tubman on the haed. She never recovered from the blow, which subjected her to spells in which she would fall into deep sleep.
Around 1844 she married a free black man named John Tubman and took his last name.( She was born Araminta Ross she later changed her first name to Harriet, afther her mother. ) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other salves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away. She set out one night on foot. With some assistance from a friendly white woman she was on her way.She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon afther Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money. The following year she returend to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two childern to fredom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon afther to rescue her brother and two other men.On her third return she went afther her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to North.
Harriet returned to the South over and over again. She devised clever techniques that helped make her succesful including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey leaving on a Saturday night, since runway notices couldn't be placed in the newspapers until