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She was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. Due to the fact that she was born into slavery, there isn't much recorded information about her early life.
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Tubman was injured in her teens. It happened when she tried to save another slave from an angry overseer who threw an iron weight at the slave. It hit Tubman in the head. This would follow her for the rest of her life. She would soon begin to have blackouts and severe headaches that would make things rather difficult. I'm very amazed that she was able to make her future journeys with the condition.
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When she was 24, she married a man named John Tubman.
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When Tubman was around 29, she escaped from slavery with assistance from a friendly white woman (The 1st Underground Raillroad conductor).
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That very next year Tubman went back to save: her sister and her sister's kids. When she went back for her husband, she found that he had taken another wife. She then set out to find more slaves who reqested freedom.
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Harriet Tubman would give a baby speical herbs to prevent it from crying if it would atract slave hunters' attention.
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If the journey was long, she would take the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey. This would help them get further away in a shorter amount of time.
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Another thing she did was she would have the slaves escape on Saturday so the wanted poster could not go into the paper until Monday.
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In 1856, Tubman was wanted for freeing slaves. The reward for her capture was $40,000. The modern equivalent is over $1 million! Wow!
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What I think she meant was they didn't know any other way to live. They were slaves in thier minds.
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In the Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse, a scout, and a spy. (I'm surprised that we didn't talk about this in our Civil War unit.)
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She died a very old woman of pneumonia in Auburn, New York. It is amazing to me that she lived to 93 years old while she was in danger of being killed so often. She could have died so many times, but her wits and sense of freedom helped her cheat death.
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I like how she used the North star as a compass like Moses.
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The reason Tubman carried a gun was so if a free slave wanted to go back, she would aim and say, "You'll be free or die. I've never lost a passenger."
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What can we learn from Mrs.Tubman? Good question, but an even better question is what can't we learn from this amazing lady? Well here's some things I've learned: When life knocks you down, It's up to you to decide wether or not to get back up again.
