Harriet Harriet Tubman Tubman

By Sarah By Sarah Lorenz Lorenz

Background

• BIRTH PLACE: Edward Brodas plantation near Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland.

• Born in 1820 or 1821. Since she was a slave her owners didn’t keep a good record of birthdates.

• Didn’t have any education because owners didn’t want

• In 1844 at the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American

Her Marriage

•If she ended up being sold her and her husband would be spilt up.•She wanted to run north but John (Husband) says there was no reason to go north to freedom. And if she ran away he would tell her master.

Escape

• Harriet was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom.

• She ended up in Philadelphia. • There she met William Still who was one of

the Underground Railroad's busiest "station masters."

Conductor • Harriet was made an official "conductor" of the

UGRR. This meant that she knew all the routes to free territory and she had to take an oath of silence so the secret of the Underground Railroad would be kept secret.

• She also made a second trip to the South to rescue her brother James and other friends.

• Later went back to get her Husband but he had gotten remarried and didn’t want to leave.

• After this Harriet Ran to Canada to finally be free.

Civil War

• When she came back from Canada the War had started, and she enlisted as a nurse for the Union.

• In 1863 Harriet joined a group of spies to get slaves informed about joining the Union army.

• In doing so she helped 500 slaves escape and join the army.

My Opinion

Harriet Tubman I believed that she was a great part of the war. She never gave up, she dreamed of freedom and she got there. The crazy part is, even when she was free she came back to help. I believe that she was the real meaning of the Civil war, never give up and fight for what you believe in.

Bibliography

"Harriett Tubman biography." Lakewood Public Library (Lakewood, Ohio). N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May 2011. <http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/tubm-har.htm>.

"Harriet Tubman timeline." Mathematics Department. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May 2011. <http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html>.