Who Is Harriet Tubman's Life As A Slave

Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Harriet Ross in 1820-1825. There is no real date found for when Harriete was born because she was a slave. She was one of nine children, and was born enslaved. Harriets mothers name was also Harriet. Harriet changed her name to honor her mother. Her mother and father were owned by two different slaveholders, who eventually got married. When they got married Harriets parents met eachother and they got married as well. Harriet went through many hardships as a slave.

In Harriets life as a child, 3 of her sisters were sent to a different plantation, and this tore their family apart. A georgia trader came in looking to buy Harriets brother, her mother successfully resisted and held the already broken family together. Harriet was sent to the super market one day to buy some goods, and she met a guy who was unauthorized to be away from the fields, and she got in the way of him and his owner and was struck in the head causing seizures, severe headaches, and narcoleptic episodes that follwed
She led the armed expedition, The Combahee River Raid and freed more than 700 slaves in North Carolina. AFter the war she lived on a little piece of land in New York, which is now a retirement home named after her. As she got older her head injury she got from the 2 pound weigh became worse and worse. She was out into the retirement home on her property and died of pheunmonia, and had a military burial service.

Harriet Tubman saved and rescued so many people while putting her life on the line. She risked her life everyday to get the rights that she deserved. SHe fought in a war that would change America for the better. She has a museum named after her, a retirement home, and many many schools. She was voted into the top three of one of hte most famous people during the Civil War era, falling behind Betsy Ross and Paul