Harriet Tubman

My Hero, Harriet Tubman

Harriet’s Early Life

Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland in the year 1822.

Her birth name was Araminta Ross. She was born as a slave, on a plantation

owned by Anthony Thompson. She worked as a house servant as a

child and then she was moved into the fields.

In 1844, she married a freed slave named John Tubman.

The Underground Railroad In 1849, Harriet freed herself by using the

underground railroad and found her way to Philadelphia.

For 10 years Tubman conducted about 12 escape missions on the underground railroad.

These missions freed about 70 slaves including many of her family members.

Many of these people moved to Ontario, Canada for safety.

During the Underground Railroad she was known as Moses.

Civil WarThroughout the Civil War

Harriet provided nursing care to black soldiers and freed slaves.

Harriet was a spy for the Union.

She was the first women to command an armed military raid.

Harriet’s Later Life Harriet was a community

activist, humanitarian and a suffragist.

Harriet’s husband died in 1867 and then she married Nelson Davis.

She opened the, Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged in Auburn, New York.

Harriet died in the year 1913.

-The Harriet Tubman House for the Aged