A little about her Harriet Tubman was one of the most remembered African Americans of all time. She rescued over three hundred slaves and claims to losing none of them. The track she took them on was called the Underground Railroad. She is also known for Civil War service and her part in woman suffrage. If you were alive during her time and you saw her without the scarf on her head you would see a deep scar on the side of her head Early Life And Childhood Harriet was born roughly around 1820 or 1821. It is hard to know when she was born because she was a slave and because of the time period no one kept great records. She was born near Bucktown, in Dorchester County, Maryland on the Edward Brodass plantation; she was the 11th child …show more content…
She was free, and she believed they should be free, too. In December of 1850, Tubman heard that her niece and her two children were going to be sold in Cambridge. She went to Baltimore and helped her niece and her niece's children escape, with the help of her niece's husband. The next year she returned to Maryland again, gaining her the name "Moses," like the prophet who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt. Tubman made many trips back to Maryland. She was very serious about helping slave's escape. One year, Harriet returned to Maryland, this time to convince her husband, John Tubman, to come with her to the north. Even when she found out he had found himself another wife, Moses led the Hebrews to freedom, without John. John Brown Shortly before she met him, Tubman claimed to have dreams of meeting John Brown. Brown wanted to use violence to help stop slavery. Though Tubman did not like violence, she was on Browns side. John wanted to raid Harpers Ferry. At the time of the attack, Tubman was not there. Some say she was helping recruit even more slaves, and some say she was sick with fever. The raid failed. John Brown was accused of teason and was hanged in December 1858. Civil War