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The timeline of Harriet Trubman starts when Araminta Ross was born c 1820 to Ben and Harriet Greene Ross. She was given the nickname of "Minty". She would later become famous as Harriet Tubman. Her place of birth was Dorchester County Maryland
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Harriet Trubman was hired out to a woman named "Miss Susan" as a nursemaid and later a planter named James Cook. She was beaten by both her owners. She was only 6 years old
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Harriet was sent to work in the fields - it was tantamount to hard labor
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She was hit in the head by overseer for trying to help a slave, which she said "broke my skull".
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Her father Ben was manumitted – released from slavery
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Harriet married a free black man called John Tubman and soon after her marriage she changed her name from Araminta (Minty) to Harriet
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Harriet and her brothers Ben and Henry escaped from slavery
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A Runaway notice was posted in the Cambridge Democrat which offered a reward of up to one hundred dollars for each slave returned
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Harriet and her two brothers returned to their owners, fearful of repercussions to the family Harriet Tubman contacted the network known as the Underground Railroad asking for their help in a further escape plane. She was successful in her escape and fled to the
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She worked in a hotel in Philadelphia.
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The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, enabling law enforcement officials, even in states which had outlawed slavery, to aid in the capture of runaway slaves. Heavy fines and punishments were imposed on anyone who abetted the escape of runaway slaves.
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December - Harriet Trubman arranged with William Still via the Underground Railroad to rescue her sister, brother-in-law and their two children from slavery
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Again using the Underground Railroad rescued her brother Moses
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At this point Harriet Trubman became an active Underground Railroad operator and during her lifetime helped rescue many hundreds of slaves escape to New York, New England, and Canada
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She was able to rescue her parents
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Abraham Lincoln elected President of the US and the Civil War starts
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Harriet Tubman was never captured and neither were the slaves that she helped. Many years later, she told an audience: "I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
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Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on 10 March 1913.
