Harriet Tubman originally named (Araminta Ross) was born in Dorchester, country, Maryland march 10, 1822. No one knows the exact date or place of Araminta's birth. She was born into slavery because both of her parents where slaves, her mother Herriet Green was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess and later by her Brodess’s son, Edward. Anthony Thompson, whom became Mary Pattison’s second husband, owned Harriet Tubman’s father Ben Ross. Harriet Tubman was the fifth child out of nine children. At a young age Harriet Tubman began to take care of her youngest brother since her mother was assigned to the big housework and had little or no time to take care of them. Around the age of five or six Brodess rented her out to a lady named “Miss Susan” as …show more content…
As a teenager, Harriet Tubman went through an incident, which changed her life forever. When Harriet Tubman was sent to the dry-goods store by one of her masters, she met a young slave who had left the fields with no permission. The owner of the slave ordered Tubman to help him control the runaway slave; however, she denied his request. When she denied helping the slave owner the, slave ran away. In result the slave owner took a two-pound weight and threw at the runway slave but it ended up hitting Tubman in the head, which she said, “broke my skull”. She then clarified that her hair, which “had never been combed…Stood out like a bushel basket" and might have saved her life”. Harriet Tubman was unconscious and bleeding and was taken back to her owner’s house where they laid her in a seat of a loom, where she stayed without any medical attention for two days. After those two days, she was then sent back to the fields to work with blood and sweat pouring down her face until she couldn’t work no more. However, Tubman was useless to the owner because of her frequent seizures due to her head injury. Eventually, Tubman’s owner returned her back to Brodess whom tried to sell her many times but was unsuccessful. It was around the same time of her head injury that Tubman was starting to become religious and after her head injury she began to have lively images and …show more content…
Although Harriet made courageous plans to leave to Philadelphia, she was very sick. Her sickness motivated her to escape slavery because she feared for her life as an ill slave with no source of money to treat herself. First Tubman left Maryland with both her brothers, Ben and Henry; however, Ben and Henry returned when they found out they were being looked for. Harriet Tubman had other plans. She did not want to go back and be kept in bondage; she wanted to be free. Tubman left to Pennsylvania by herself. On her journey, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad. She used it to travel nearly 90 miles to Philadelphia. She crossed into the free state of Pennsylvania