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The Beginning
Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1820 in Marylands Dorchester County. She was the daughter of Ben Ross and Harriet Green. -
Working Slave
Ase early as age five, Harriet began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. -
Harriet and John Tubman
Around 1844 Harriet married a free black named John Tubman. -
Run Away Slave
In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away. She set out one night on foot. She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Canada -
Family Matters
The following year she returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. Lastly, around 1956 she even made the dangrerous trip to rescue her 70 year old grandmother. -
Wanted
By 1856, Tubman's capture would have brought a $40,000 reward from the South. -
The Conductor
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. -
"Moses"
Harriet Tumban was a hero and became known as "Moses." Around 1860 she became avtively involved in antislavery meetings -
The End
Harriet Tubman passed away in 1913 but her actions still live on today. She has impacted lives in the past and has shaped out future. She is a role model to many and someone to be commemorated in black history month. -
Credits
Information was gathered from http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430
Pictures were from google images
