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Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 as a slave. Her original name was Arminta Ross.
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As a teenager, Harriet was very caring of the slaves around her. She was hit in the head with a metal object and went into a coma.
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Tubman escaped to Philadelphia in the fall of 1849, but soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family. One at a time, she returned slaves to freedom.
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When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed to recapture slaves in the North, Tubman began to escort slaves to Southern Ontario, Canada, where slavery had been outlawed.
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Tubman leter guided the Combahee River Raid liberating more than 750 slaves.
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Harriet Tubman has made 19 successful trips to the south to free slaves. She has freed many slaves altogether.
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Tubman died in 1913 of Pneumonia