There are many important African Americans who lived in the 1800s. Harriet Tubman was a very important person and had made an impact on the world. Her biggest and most known achievement was she has helped slaves escape with the help of the Underground Railroad and was the conductor. Schools even teach about her achievement, which is to remember her for what she has done to help. Araminta Ross (which was her first name before she changed it to Harriet Tubman) was born in the early 1800s in Maryland's Dorchester Country. Harriet Tubman has a lot of brothers and sisters. Her parents ( named Harriet Greene Ross and Benjamin Ross) were already working as slaves before she was even born. It would all start for Harriet Tubman at age 5, she starting working as a house slave. She would take care of the house with cleaning it, she would …show more content…
This is where she would change her original last name from Ross to Tubman. She would also change her first name to Harriet to resemble her mother, Harriet Greene Ross. Harriet had heard that her brothers, Ben and Henry, were going to be sold, so she had to make an escape plan. On September 17, 1849, Harriet, Ben, and Henry would escaped the plantation they were on. But the brothers would change their mind and decide to go back, but Harriet didn't. She would go 90 miles North, with the help of the Underground Railroad, to Pennsylvania and make her way to freedom. After Harriet escaped, she would find a job working as a housekeeper in Philadelphia. She felt lonely living by herself and wanted her friends and loved ones to be free also. She went back South to help her niece and her niece's children to freedom. She would again use the Underground Railroad to go back to Philadelphia and was the conductor for it. She would even try to bring her Husband John along with them, but the marriage wasn't good between them and John would find a new wife and would stay with her in