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Harriet Tubman's exact birth date and birth place is unknown. Born Araminta "Minty" Ross to slave parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess
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Harriet Tubman was hired out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan". Harriet was forced to keep watch on the baby as it slept
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Around 1844, she married a free black man named John Tubman
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Harriet Tubman escaped her owner's to the free state of Philidelphia in 1849.She escaped during the night alone.
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After escaping slavery for the second time Harriet started helping other slaves get their freedom as a conducter on the underground railroad. She is known to have saved over 300 slaves on the underground railroad.
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In 1851 Harriet Tubman helped 11 slaves reach Canada and settled there herself to save money and resources to help more slaves.
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Harriet made one of her most daring rescues traveling by train and by horse and buggy, sometimes in broad daylight to save her father from slavery.
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Harriet made her last trip on the Underground Railroad helping 7 slaves escape to Canada.
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Harriet returns to the US and enlists in the Union Army as a contraband nurse.
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In 1863 Harriet Tubman worked as a scout for colonel James Montgomery. She put together a group of spies who kept Montgomery informed about slaves who might want to join the Union army. While Harriet tubmen worked for Montgomery she helped organize the Combahee River Raid. The purpose of the raid was to harass whites and rescue freed slaves. They were successful in shelling the rebel outposts and gathering almost 500 slaves.
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In 1869 Harriet Tubman married Nelson Davis and they where married 19 years until his death.
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Harriet Tubman died a free land owning women in 1913.
