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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman. By: Jeffrey Harter and Kevin Rodriguez. Early Years. In 1920 Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland . At the age of six she was considered fit to work. When she was a woman, she first started to work in the house.

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Harriet Tubman

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  1. Harriet Tubman By: Jeffrey Harter and Kevin Rodriguez

  2. Early Years • In 1920 Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. • At the age of six she was considered fit to work. • When she was a woman, she first started to work in the house. • Harriet’s first marriage was to a man named John Tubman.

  3. Later in Life • Harriet’s actually did not escape for freedom, but was afraid of being sent to another plantation. • The following year after her escape, Tubman went back to free her family. • Tubman’s husband.

  4. The fight for her people • Not only was she fighting for herself but all African Americans. • Tubman realized that all man should be free. She made multiple journey’s back to the South in order to free slaves. She had many clever tricks so she wouldn’t be discovered. • There was an even a $40,000 dollar reward for her capture.

  5. How Tubman and African Americans were treated • Tubman’s life in the fields of the plantation were very dreadful and exhausting. • As a slave Harriet Tubman and other African Americans had many laws and restrictions they had to follow. • Crime of rap and death for African Americans.

  6. Why fight for equality

  7. Harriet’s fight for equality • Harriet Tubman made nineteen trips to the South, she led 300 slaves to their freedom along the Underground Railroad. • She was an army nurse, cook, and spy during the civil war.

  8. Harriet’s early life accomplishments • Help build the route for the Underground Railroad. • Save hundred of African-American lives. • Help give support to the North during the civil war to help defeat the South.

  9. Significant Quote • "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."

  10. Death of Harriet Tubman • Underwent brain surgery at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital to alleviate the pains and "buzzing" she experienced regularly • Eventually admitted into the rest home • Died of peumonia on March 10, 1913

  11. After Tubman’s Death • Upon her death in 1913, the outpouring of condolences reached across all racial lines, economic divisions and from around the world • She was buried with military honors in Fort Hill Cemetery in New York • Freedom Park, a tribute to the memory of Harriet Tubman, opened in the summer of 1994 at 17 North Street in Auburn

  12. After Tubman’s Death • Liberty Ship Harriet Tubman, christened in 1944 by Eleanor Roosevelt. • In 1995, Harriet Tubman was honored by the federal government with a commemorative postage stamp bearing her name and likeness.

  13. After Tubman’s Death • She continues to inspire generations of Americans struggling for civil rights with her bravery and bold action. • widely known and well-respected while she was alive

  14. Women’s Rights • Tubman worked with her friend Susan B. Anthony on woman suffrage • In 1896, in a touching link to the next generation of African American women activists, Tubman spoke at the first meeting of the National Association of Colored Women • Active in the suffrage movement since 1860, Tubman continued to appear at local and national suffrage conventions until the early 1900s

  15. Legacy

  16. Works Cited • Governor’s Office 8/16/2011 News Release http://www.governor.maryland.gov/pressreleases/110816.asp Historical Maryland Proclamations March 10, 1990 July 15, 1998. (n.d.). HARRIET TUBMAN. Retrieved from http://harriettubman.com/ • Harriet Tubman Biography - From Slavery to Freedom [4]. (n.d.). About.com Women's History. Retrieved from http://womenshistory.about.com/od/harriettubman/a/tubman_later.htm • Harriet Tubman Biography. (n.d.). Bio.com. Retrieved from http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430?page=2 • Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. | Legacy. (n.d.). Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. | Legacy. Retrieved from http://harriethouse.org/legacy.htm • Harriet Tubman timeline. (n.d.). Harriet Tubman Timeline. Retrieved from http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html • Harriet Tubman. (n.d.). Harriet Tubman. Retrieved from http://www.tourdorchester.org/static.php?page=9 • Macon.com. (n.d.). Harriet Tubman’s Life and Legacy to Be Celebrated. Retrieved from http://www.macon.com/2013/03/08/2387175/harriet-tubmans-life-and-legacy.html • PBS. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/harriet-tubman/#.UxSgAaMo7cs • PBS. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

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