Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross to slave parents‚ Harriet Green and Ben Ross. Harriet Green was known as Rit. Harriet Tubman was known as Minty. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess and later her son Edward. Her mother Rit who may have been the child of a white man was a cook for the Brodess family .Her father Ben was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on Thompson’s plantation.In Harriet’s childhood‚ Harriet had to watch her little brother and a baby because
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Zion Stroman March 6‚ 2012 Ms Nimmons 1st Grade Harriet Tubman Harriet Ross was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1820. She was one of eleven children born to African slaves named Harriett Green and Benjamin Ross. They were slaves of the Maryland planter named Edward Brodas. Her family came from the Ashanti tribe based in West Africa. Harriet was injured as a teenager when she was hit by a lead stone while attempting to help a slave get away.
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Do you know who Harriet Tubman is? Also known as (Minty Ross) was a slave. At the age of five was out to do child-care. When harriet turned twelve she was doing field work and hauling logs. Despite she was a hardworking mother for many hard years‚ she lived in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. Harriet was a slave until they her and the other slaves found a route and named it the underground railroad. She spent 10 years going back and forth Harriet was born a slave and raised on Maryland’s Eastern
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Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland sometime between 1819 and 1822.(5) Her birth name is actually Araminta Harriet Ross‚ and her nickname was “Minty”(1). Later‚ she adopted the name Harriet after her mother. Born a slave‚ Tubman had a hard childhood. She mostly worked in the field until her owner sold her out to make more money. Her new owner‚ known as “Miss Susan”‚ put her to work as a house slave. She wasn’t good at this because she had never done any housework before‚ or even
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Harriet set out for the free state of Philadelphia alone and by foot‚ later making use of the underground railroad‚ traveling almost 90 miles to reach freedom. “When I found I had crossed that line‚ I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees‚ and over the fields‚ and I felt like I was in Heaven” (Bradford). Rather than stay in the safety of the north‚ Harriet returned to the south‚ first for her niece and
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Mrs. Fernandez Do you know how many slaves Harriet Tubman saved throughout her whole life? Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland in the year of 1822. Harriet Tubman grew up with a very loving mother‚ but the first years of her life were pretty tough‚ though. She lived with a fear of getting separated from her family‚ like many other slaves. Harriet’s real name was Armanitia Ross‚ but she changed it. Harriet was a humanitarian to all slaves by taking care of them; being
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race. Well Harriet Beecher Stowe was a great abolitionist and actually stopped slavery just by writing a book. Interesting facts about Harriet are that her mother and father (Roxana Beecher and Lyman Beecher) had eleven children‚ Harriet’s father was "a leading Congregationalist minister and the patriarch of a family committed to social justice." "Stowe achieved national fame for her anti-slavery novel‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ which fanned the flames of sectionalism before the Civil War. Stowe died in Hartford
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Harriet Tubman was a very accomplished woman with many great feats under her belt. Born into slavery under the name Araminta‚ she lived a tough life. She later married a free black man‚ and took her mother’s first name and her husband’s last name‚ now under the name Harriet Tubman. A short while after she married her husband‚ her master died‚ this was when Tubman made her move. She escaped‚ going from Maryland to Pennsylvania alone and unnoticed. She later went on to become a conductor for the
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Krishna Amin Mr. Zahn History 8‚ Period 5 13 May 2016 Harriet Tubman’s Greatest Achievement Background information on harriet tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester county‚ Maryland. Tubman was babysitting at the age of five. She was work at the field and hauling logs at the age of twelve. Minty Ross married a free black man and became Harriet Tubman. In 1849 tubman made a life changing decision to run away unable to convince her husband to come with her. Her husband also said “if you run away I
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article “Catharine Beecher and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Architects of Female Power” by author Valerie Gill‚ Ms. Gill attempts to bridge the gap between what appears to be two powerful women of their time with two totally different opinions of the American woman and the type of life they should lead. The author points out the obvious differences of opinions in the writings of the two women‚ who are related by the way‚ and the different era in which they write. Catharine Beecher was the great aunt
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