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Historians are actually unsure when Harriet Tubman was actually born they have an idea that she was born around 1820-1822. Her parents are Ben Ross and Harriet Green. She had eight siblings that were born into slavery.
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Nat Turner was a slave owned by Joesph Travis from Virginia. He believed he was chose by God to lead a slave rebellion. In February 21st in 1831 Nat and seven other slaves killed Travis and his family. There was 50 white people were killed during the rebellion. -
Tubman took a hit to the head protecting a slave who left the field without permission. -
Harriet married John Tubman a free African American. Tubman took her husband's last and changed to first name to her moms names. They later divorced when he wouldn't join her so she could escape. -
Harriet got a piece of paper from a white abolitionist neighbor and told her how to find the first house of freedom.
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Harriet Tubman wanted to save as many people as she could. She made her first trip back in 1850 when her neice was being sold. Historians know for a fact that she saved 70 people but other people say that she saved 300. -
She knew all the routes to free territory and she took an oath of silence so the secret of the Underground Railroad stayed a secret.
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Ontario passed "An Act to Prevent the Further Introduction of Slaves and to Limit the Term of Forced Servitude within This Province." This confirmed the ownership of slave, but provided that the children of slaves, unless they are age of twenty-five years would automatically would be set free. This legislation remained in force until 1834 when, by power of the Imperial Parliament's Emancipation Act, slavery was abolished in all parts of the British Empire. -
When a slave escaped and managed to make contact with ally, they became a part of the underground railroad and would be transported to freedom. The routes from safe-house to safe-house which is houses where fugitive slaves were kept. They were called lines and were roughly 15 miles long, but the distance shortened considerably the further north one got. -
Kansas and Nebraska were important areas for growing wheat, corn, oats and rye. In 1854 Stephen A. Douglas introduced his Kansas-Nebraska bill to the Senate. These states could now enter the Union with or without slavery. Frederick Douglass warned that the bill was "an open invitation to a fierce and bitter strife". -
During the civil war Harriet was a spy, nurse, and cook. She helped the army rescue 700 enslaved people in South Carolina.
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The civil war was over the issues of slavery. It was the economics of slavery and political control of that central to the conflict. -
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. It declared that all slaves would be free in states still in rebellion. It did not apply to those slave states such as Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and parts of Virginia and Louisiana, that were already occupied by Northern troops. -
The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in1865, by six former officers of the Confederate Army. Over a year later a general organization of local Klans was established in Nashville in April, 1867. Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white hats and in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. -
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution was passed by both houses on 8th and13th of June in 1866. The amendment was made to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liveries of recently freed slaves. Most Southern states refused to ratify the 14th Amendment. -
Congress passed the first reconstruction Act on 2nd March in 1867. New elections were to be held in each state with freed male slaves being allowed to vote. The act also included an amendment that offered readmission to the Southern states after Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed the bill but Congress re-passed the bill the same day. -
Harriet Tubman married Nelson Davis. He was a civil war veteran. They adopted a girl named Gertie.
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After the American Civil War most state in the south passed anti-African American legislation. That included laws that discriminate against African Americans attending public schools and use same facilities like restaurants, theaters, hotels, and public bathrooms. -
Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913 in auburn, New York. She was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn with military honors.
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In 1980s, Harriet Tubman was involved in women's suffrage moment. She spoke at events. She also worked at Susan B. Anthony.