Stoll 1 Brooke Stoll Dougherty 8th Grade Language Arts Tuesday, May 2017 Harriet Tubman Have you heard of people using the Underground Railroad to escape slavery? Many people helped conduct it. Including a five foot two inches women named Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was an African American heroine who was instrumental in leading many slaves to freedom. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. She was automatically born into slavery. Her name was originally Araminta Harriet Ross, but everyone called her Minty when she was young and Harriet when she got older. Ben Ross and Harriet “Rit” Green were the parents of Harriet. Her parents were owned by Joseph and Mary Pattison Brodess and Anthony Thompson. At the …show more content…
An enslaved person and a free person’s marriage was not fully legal, and it was unstable. Then in 1849, Tubman decided to leave her husband and help others escape from slavery. Tubman helped be a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She successfully took 19 trips from the South to help slaves get to freedom. Harriet became known as “Moses” because she directed and helped so many people. In 1858, she helped John Brown plan his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Harriet Tubman was so helpful on the Underground Railroad because of her geography knowledge. She never lost, or let an enslaved person get caught. On March 18, 1869, she got married to Nelson Davis. They adopted a little girl named Gertie in 1874. Any money Harriet Tubman made she had to send it back to pay the Brodesses. One of the parties she led is said to have stopped at Frederick Douglas’s home. Harriet Tubman was an active women’s rights supporter. She worked with Susan B. Anthony. Tubman continuously risked her life to free the slaves. Over her career, she freed around 750 slaves. She always told people to keep on going even when life got hard. God and her pistol kept her …show more content…
She was volunteered as a part of Massachusetts troop in 1861. Tubman worked as a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union. “Minty” helped get information about where the Confederates would be. She helped the Union set fire to the Confederate’s buildings and ruined their bridges. Harriet was the first women to ever lead a military expedition. The Union soldiers relied on her to guide them in unfamiliar territory. They all called her “General Tubman.” She helped lead raids on the South. After the war Harriet moved to Auburn, New York and helped Blacks with getting freedom. She turned her house into a “Home for Indigent and Aged Negroes.” Harriet was able to finance the house by selling her biography and giving speeches. Tubman had to get brain surgery because of all the injuries to her brain. She was never fully recovered. In 1903, Harriet gave a parcel of land to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in