HARRIET TUBMAN

CHILDHOOD

• She was born to the name Araminta Ross
• She adopted the name harriet from her mother
• Born a slave and raised on Maryland eastern shore,
• Her exact birthday is unknow but somewhere around the year 1820

MARRIAGE

• She married John tubman in 1844
• He was a free black man
• In 1849, Harriet fled to Pennsylvania but her husband didnt gomwith her
• He later remarried
• The Slavery lines caused freedom and slaverynto be blurred in there land resulting in free people marring slaves

MOSES

• Harriet got the name moses after leaving slaves to freedom
• Atter fleeing to pennsilvania a free state in 1849 she made trips to Maryland
• In all of her trips she did not loose a single passenger
• Over 10 years she made 19 trips and led over 300 slaves to freedom
• She rescued both her family memeber and strangers in an effort to bring them a better life

DANGERS

• Many slave holders posted boundaries
• The fugitive act passed in 1850 was a danger to harriet
• It imposed seriouse punishments for assisting escape root

JOBS

• She was proponent of women suffrage
• Worked alog the side of Susan B Anthony and other promant women
• Worked for the union as a cook in the army
• She was a nurse and also a spy

JOHN BROWN

• Harriet believed in the abolitionists movement
• She worked with John Brown the laeder of the movement
• He called her general Tubman
• He consulted with her about plans to raid harpers ferry

FAMILY

• She had one daughter with her second husband Nelson Davis
• He daughters name was Gertie Davis
• Her mother was Harriet Greene and gather Ben Ross
• She had 7 siblings; four sisters and three brothers

INJURIES

• In her teens she stood up fr a fellow slave and got beat down
• She suffered life long headaches and even seizures
• Sje also had vivid dream because of the head injury
• These simptons cause powerful visions which sue described to God
• They helped her guide the trips to the North

DEATH

• Harriet died in 1930 from pneumonia
• Just before her death she told friends and family "i go to prepare a place for you."
• She was barried in forthill cemetary with miltary honners