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Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross. She would later adopt the name "Harriet" after her mother: Harriet Ross.
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Harriet suffered life-long headaches, seizures and had vivid dreams as a result of a traumatic head injury she suffered as a teenager while trying to stand up for a fellow field hand. These same symptoms gave her powerful visions that she ascribed to God and helped guide her on many trips to the North while leading others to freedom.
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she married John Tubman, a free African American
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she fled slavery and left her family and her husband behind
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harriet became a famous conductor on the underground rail road
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Tubman collaborated with John Brown in 1858 in planning his raid on Harpers Ferry.
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In early 1859, abolitionist U.S. Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York for US$1,200.
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At some point in the late 1890s, she underwent brain surgery at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital as she was unable to sleep because of pains and "buzzing" in her head. She refused to be given anaesthesia. Instead she chewed a bullet during her surgery. She had seen the Civil War soldiers do this when their limbs had to be amputated
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Her most memorable appearance was at the organizing meeting of the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, D.C.
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Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on her 93 birthday
