The Life of Harriet Tubman

By dreppard

  • Harriet Tubman is born

    Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross as a slave

  • Escapes

    Harriet escapes her plantation using the Underground Railroad

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Tubman starts working with abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Thomas Garrett

  • General Tubman

    Harriet earns her nickname "General Tubman" from John Brown. A year later he was executed in a raid.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln is elected as President.

  • Civil War

    The Civil War begins. Tubman begins working as a nurse

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation is passed and slaves were set free in the Confederate states.

  • Civil War ends

  • First biography

    Sarah Hopkins Bradford writes Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

  • Suffragist

    Harriet begins advocating for women's suffrage

  • Harriet Tubman dies

    Harriet was 93 when she died from pneumonia

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