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Harriet Tubman. Harriet ... After that she kept working for rights for blacks and
women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She ...
Harriet Tubman. Harriet ... After that she kept working for rights for blacks and
women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She ...
Harriet Tubman. Harriet ... After that she kept working for rights for blacks and
women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She ...
Harriet Tubman. Harriet ... After that she kept working for rights for blacks and
women. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. She ...
The Accomplishments Of Harriet Tubman. The Accomplishments of Harriet Tubman Harriet
Tubman was a black woman born into slavery. ... Harriet Tubman. ...
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Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. She slept next to a fire and mostly lived off of cornmeal. At the age of 12 she was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted escape. At the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American. Five years later, fearing she would be sold south, she made her escape. Tubman 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. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. Following the route to Pennsylvania, she initially settled in Philadelphia, where she met William Still, the Philadelphia Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad. With the assistance of Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned about the workings of the UGRR. Tubman 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. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. Following the route to Pennsylvania, she initially settled in Philadelphia, where she met William Still, the Philadelphia Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad. With the assistance of Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned about the workings of the UGRR. In 1850, Harriet helped her first slaves escape to the North. She sent a message to her family to board a fishing boat. This boat would sail up the Chesapeake Bay where they would meet Harriet in Bodkin's Point. When they got to Bodkin's Point, Harriet guided them from safe house to safe house in...
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