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Harriet Tubman

     Harriet Tubman was born in the year 1820, named Araminta Rose. She was born in a plantation in Maryland. She changed her name to 'Hariett' after her mother. 

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    Tubman also had narcolepsy and had many hallucinations. This was due to her getting in the way of a slave owner throwing a weight at a fugitive slave as a child.

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     Harriett's father was set free, and her mother had passed. In the will, it stated that Harriett and her brothers should be set free, but this was ignored by the owner. 

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     She had married John Tubman, who constantly threatened Tubman to another owner. Tubman, knowing that her brothers were still held in plantations, decided to escape with them.

 

     In 1849, Harriet escaped to Philadelphia, with her brothers turning back. She was free but wanted her loved ones to be free too.  

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Using the Underground Railroad

     Harriet Tubman first went to take her niece and her niece's children to Phillidelphia through the underground railroad. She had become a 'conductor'.  Due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Tubman had to lead the slaves into Canada.

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     Tubman used a gun to protect her and the charges and to stop the charges from letting fear get the best of them. Children were drugged to keep them quiet and to avoid detection from slave catchers.

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     Tubman had personally saved at least 70 slaves and helped many others on their journey. A $40,000 reward was placed for her capture. She had traveled to the south and back 19 times, with courage and discipline. She was known as 'The Moses of her people".

Civil War & Later Life

     Due to her knowledge of Confederate Geography, Tubman became a valuable union spy and was also a nurse during the civil war.

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     She had then retired to her farm in New York with friends and family, Tubman then opened a facility known as the 'Harriet Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Colored People', which was an adult care facility for people with deteriorating health.

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     Harriet Tubman passed away on March 10, 1913.

Civil War & Later Life

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