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Harriet Tubman A Woman Slave Who Freed Herself and Others With Courage and Determination

Harriet Tubman A Woman Slave Who Freed Herself and Others With Courage and Determination . Her Personnel Life. Birth: c. 1819 near Bucktown , Dorchester, Maryland Name of Birth: Araminta Ross Parents: Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene Family Background: Pure African Ancestry

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Harriet Tubman A Woman Slave Who Freed Herself and Others With Courage and Determination

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  1. Harriet Tubman A Woman Slave Who Freed Herself and Others With Courage and Determination

  2. Her Personnel Life • Birth: c. 1819 near Bucktown, Dorchester, Maryland • Name of Birth: Araminta Ross • Parents: Benjamin Ross and Harriet Greene • Family Background: Pure African Ancestry • Education: Illiterate her whole life • Marriage: 25yrs-John Tubman and remarried to Nelson Davis -1869 • Plantation Owner: Edward Brodas

  3. Life As a Slave • Lived in harsh conditions, suffered of abuse • Since age 5, would get loaned out to other plantations and be separated from her family to perform a variety of tasks • At around 13yrs on another plantation, the climax in her life happened, the owner, ordered her to tie up a slave that had tried to run away, but she refused to so her overseer knocked her out with a 2lb weight, which later caused her narcoleptic seizures

  4. 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. ~ Harriet Tubman

  5. 1849 • March 7, 1849 Edward Brodas (47) died on his farm at Bucktown • White abolitionist Neighbor gave a piece of paper w/2 names WHICH Explained how to get to first house to path to freedom & cross mason-Dixon line • 1st house- put into wagon covered w/ sack and driven to next destination, she followed the route to Penn., where she initially settled in Philadelphia and met William still along with other members of the Philadelphia. Anti-slavery society learned more about the UGRR

  6. 1850 Guided by the North Star and w/ the money she saved from the previous year, she sent a message to the oldest son of one of her sisters saying for her and family to board the Cambridge fishing boat in Cambridge.The boat would sail up Chesapeake Bay and meet Harriet in Bodkin's Point. Once at Bodkin's Point, Harriet guided them from safe house to safe house in Pennsylvania until Philadelphia was reached.

  7. 1850 Continued • Sept: Harriet was named official conductor of the UGRR • 2nd trip was to the South to rescue James and friends- helped them across river and get to Thomas Garret’s home • 1850 Fugitive Slaves Act was passed • Caused even more security codes and heading into Canada instead of North

  8. 1851 • Sept: 3rd trip was to South again to get John, but he remarried and was doing fine, so Harriet went to Thomas Garret’s home and found plenty of work to do from there the next safe house was Frederick Douglas. Once enough money was collected by F.D, 11 passengers began the journey to Canada with Harriet • Pathway: cross over Niagara Falls on handmade suspension bridge to the city of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada • St. Catherine was her home base until 1857 when she could finance her expenses as a conductor , while here she attended Salem Chapel BME Church (on Geneva St.)

  9. 1851 Continued • Pathway: cross over Niagara Falls on handmade suspension bridge to the city of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada • St. Catherine was her home base until 1857 when she could finance her expenses as a conductor , while here she attended Salem Chapel BME Church (on Geneva St.)

  10. 1852-1857 • Began to be called Moses for she repeated his story with the modern slave world • A passenger wanted to go back but Tubman sensed his future of abuse and telling about the secrets of the UGRR and pointed a gun at his head so he followed Tubman and told him “Dead folks tell no tales.”

  11. 1852-1857 Continued • Freed her Brothers in 1854 • Freed parents in 1857 • Frances Seward provided a home for Tubman and Margaret in Auburn, New York, which Tubman relocated her parents to from St. Catherines. The home was later sold to her for a small value which later became her home base • Rescued Ben Ross in broad daylight with a train ticket and a horse

  12. The Last Journey • Dec. 1860: Last trip was to MD bringing 7 people over to Canada • -Results: • Was a conductor for about 10 years • Rescued over 300 people • Made 19 trips • NEVER lost a passenger • Left for Canada

  13. (1861-1865)-Civil War • Served w/ Union Army as: cook, laundress, nurse, scout, and spy behind Confederate lines • 1862: moved to Beaufort, South Carolina & w/ other several missionary teachers they helped hundreds of Sea Islander slaves transition from bondage to freedom

  14. 1896 • Was a delegate to the National Association of Colored Women's first annual convention

  15. Death March 10,1913 • Before died: gave her home for the elderly to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church • June 14,1914: • received man honors, such as Liberty Ship • A large bronze plaque was placed at the Cayuga County Courthouse • civic holiday declared in her honor in Auburn • 1994 (17 North Street, Auburn, New York)-freedom park was opened • Christened by Eleanor Roosevelt • 1995-The Federal Gov’t honored Tubman w/ a commemorative postage stamp w/ her name &likeness • Tubman was buried with military rites in Fort Hill Cemetery

  16. Accomplishments • Set herself free • Set parents and family free • Set over 300 free w/out losing a single passenger • Made her home the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church • Was a delegate to the National Association of Colored Women's first annual convention. • Served in the Civil War

  17. Bibliography http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/tubm-har.htm "Harriet Tubman Biography." Women in History Living Vignettes of Notable Women from U.S History. Lakewood Public Library. Web. 29 Apr. 10. <.org>. http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/ "Harriet Tubman Life." Bound for the Promised Land. Web. 29 Apr. 10. <.com>. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html "Harriet Tubman Timeline." The African American History of Western New York. Web. 29 Apr. 10. <.edu>. • Many of Tubman’s efforts are described in The Underground Railroad a book published by Henry “Box ” Brown in 1872

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