Harriet Tubman Early Life

HARRIET TUBMAN

Early Life

Harriet Tubman was a slave in the west. She didn’t know when she was born. At the age of six she started slavery. The line between freedom and slavery was hazy for Tubman and her family. Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben was freed from slavery at the age of 45, stipulated in the will of a previous owner. None the less. Ben had few options but to continue working as a timber estimator and foreman for his former owner. Although similar manumission stipulation applied to rit and her children. The family chose not to free them despite his free slaves, Ben had the power to challenge their decision. Harriet Tubman decided to escape following about of illness and the death of her owner in 1849. She feared that her family

In December 1850, Harriet helped her entire family make the journey to Philadelphia. This was the first of many trips by Tubman, who a new nickname “Moses” for her encouragement and leadership. There was only one family member that did not make the journey was Tubman’s husband. John, who preferred to stay in Maryland with his new wife.

The dynamics of escaping slavery changed in 1850,with the passage of the fugitive slave law. This law stated that escaped slaves could be captured in the north and returned to slavery, leading to abduction of no-more slaves and free blacks living in free states. Law enforcement leaders of the north were compelled to aid in the capture of slaves. Regardless to their own principles. In response to law . Harriet re-routed the underground railroad to Canada, which prohibited slavery categorically.

In December 1851. Harriet helped a group of 11 fugitives forward. There is proof to advise that the party stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Fredrick

Harriet’s friends and followers were able to raise some funds to support her. One admirer, Sarah H. Bradford, wrote and biography entitled “Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, with the proceeds going to Harriet and her family. Harriet continued to give freely in spite of her enomic woes. In 1903, she donated a part of her land to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Auburn, The Harriet Tubman Home for the aged opened on this sites in 1908.

As Harriet aged, the head pains became early in her life become more painful and disruptive. She underwent brain surgery at Boston’s she experienced regularly. Harriet was eventually admitted into the rest home named in her honor. She was surrounded by friends and family members. Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in 1913.

Harriet Tubman, widely known and well-respected while she was alive. Became an American icon/ idol in the years after Tubman past away. A survey at the end of the 20th century named her as one of the most famous civilians in American before the Civil war, third only Betsy Ross and Paul Revere. She keeps on inspiring generations of American struggling for civil rights with her bravery and awesome