Harriet Tunbman And The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tunbman and the Underground Railroad
Araminta Ross was born into slavery around the year of 1820. Her mother and father were owned by separate masters. She first started as a house servant, but as she became older she was sent to work in the fields where she suffered from an irreversible blow to the head. Sometime around 1844 Ross married a free black man, John Tubman. She took his last name a later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother. Due to the fear of being sold and separated from John, her husband, she talked about going north. John was not happy about this decision and threatened to tell her master. Freedom meant too much to her so she left her husband and headed up north. A white woman helped her with her escape
Araminta Ross was born into slavery around the year of 1820. Her mother and father were owned by separate masters. She first started as a house servant, but as she became older she was sent to work in the fields where she suffered from an irreversible blow to the head. Sometime around 1844 Ross married a free black man, John Tubman. She took his last name a later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother. Due to the fear of being sold and separated from John, her husband, she talked about going north. John was not happy about this decision and threatened to tell her master. Freedom meant too much to her so she left her husband and headed up north. A white woman helped her with her escape