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    young Harriet Tubman watches the overseer very closely. Finally‚ she gets her chance‚ the overseer turns and starts walking away and Harriet sinks her teeth into a juicy apple. Suddenly she feels an excruciating pain come across her back‚ the overseer had caught Harriet and now was mercilessly whipping her. After her cruel punishment was over‚ Harriet told herself that one day she would be free to eat all the apples that she wanted. In 1822‚ Harriet Tubman was born. As a slaveHarriet learned

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    Harriet Robinson worked in the Lowell mills from 1834 to 1848‚ starting at the age of 10. Who than became an active abolitionist and was involved in the women’s rights movement. She wrote this autobiography‚ Loom and Spindle: Or‚ Life Among the Early Mill Girls‚ 1898‚ when she was 73 years old with the intention to entertain her readers but also to compare the political issues of the 1890s. During the 1820s‚ Francis Cabot Lowell developed a new system for organizing textile factories in Massachusetts

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    “Oppressed slaves should flee and take Liberty Line to freedom.” The Underground Railroad began in the 1780s while Harriet Tubman was born six decades later in antebellum America. The Underground Railroad was successful in its quest to free slaves; it even made the South pass two acts in a vain attempt to stop its tracks. Then‚ Harriet Tubman‚ an African-American with an incredulous conviction to lead her people to the light‚ joins the Underground Railroad’s cause becoming one of the leading conductors

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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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    Araminta Ross‚ also known as Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County‚ Maryland in 1819 and died 1913. She was one of 11 children. Raised in harsh conditions‚ she got whippings even as a small child. Some nights she would sleep as close as she could to the fire as possible. She would sometimes stick her toes into the fire to avoid frostbite. Harriet’s early childhood was spent with her grandmother‚ who was too old to do slave labor. In 1844‚ Harriet married John Tubman at the age

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    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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    Slavery was a harsh and terrible way of life for all slaves. However there were differences in class among slaves. Lower class slaves were “field slaves”. Upper class slaves were “house slaves”. The daily routines of these slaves differed greatly. Field slaves sole purpose was production. Their duties were raising‚ planting and cultivation of crops‚ clearing land‚ burning underbrush‚ rolling logs‚ splitting rails‚ carrying water‚ mending fences‚ spreading fertilizer‚ and breaking soil. Working from

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    Civil War Project Harriet Tubman’s official birth name was Araminta Harriet Ross. She was born in 1820 in Bucktown‚ Md. Tubman had 11 other siblings‚ all of them belonging to a slave couple.Harriet started working at seven years old‚ doing housework‚ and when she got older‚ she became a field hand. She had physical violence in her daily life. Many of the violence she suffered was permanent physical injuries. She was struck on the head by a slave overseer. After the blow‚ she kept on falling asleep

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    Harriet Tubman was a Black-African American ‚ who slaves honored for inspiring the slave community ‚ to never give up. Also her brave role of intelligence motivated a 100 plus slaves escape with her  to freedom. Later‚ Harriet’s legacy became the founder of the Underground Railroad . Harriet Tubman’s character traits played a role in her deciding to escape from slavery. Harriet’s honor for inspiring the slave community encouraged many people to never give up and they admired her how confident she

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    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. The impact knocked her unconscious and

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