Who Is Harriet Tubman The Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman was a spiritual woman who lived her ideals and dedicated her life to freeing others. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1825, in Dorchester County, Maryland. She had 4 brothers, Robert, Ben, Henry and Moses. She also had 4 sisters, Linah, Mariah, Soph and Rachel. Although some of her siblings were sold to out of state buyers, at five or six years old, Harriet Tubman was given out to another plantation. She became to sick to work and was returned, malnourished and struggling from exposure to the cold. After Harriet Tubman recovered, she was lent out again to another plantation where she worked as a nursemaid. By Harriet Tubman's early teens, she was working as a field hand, plowing

Harriet Tubman was nicknamed “Minty” by her parents. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross but changed her name to Harriet Tubman shortly after she married John Tubman. Harriet Tubman suffered severe head damage has a kid because the slave owner she worked for was punishing a runaway slave by throwing a weight at the runaway slave but the slave owner missed and the weight hit Harriet Tubman in the head and caused permanent damage that affected her later in her life. She freed more than three hundred slaves through the underground railroad. In 1849 Harriet Tubman escaped to the north. Harriet Tubman said: “The weight broke my skull and cut a piece of that shawl clean off and drove it into my skull. They carried me in the house all bleeding and fainting. I had no bed, no place to lie down on, and they laid me on the seat of the loom, and I stayed there all day and the next”.-Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman's family was allowed to hunt and fish for their own food. Most slave families were not allowed to hunt for their own food. Her sisters were sold and forced to leave their kids at their previous farm. Harriet Tubman escaped to Philadelphia in 1849 after her owner, Edward Brodess died. Harriet Tubman