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Moses Of The 1800s

Who is a great female hero from the 1800s? Who freed herself from slavery? Who freed other people from slavery? Not Wonder Woman, but Harriet Tubman. As you will see Harriet Tubman is a hero as seen through her personal background and lifetime accomplishments.
I.Childhood
Harriet Tubman was born Arminta Ross in 1820. She was born a slave in Bucktown, Maryland which is on the Eastern Shore. Her parents were Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. Her father taught her everything he knew about the woods and this will help her later. She was nicknamed Minty before she started to go by her mother's name Harriet. She had 10 brothers and sisters and her owner was Edward Brodas. She believed that her family was part of the Ashanti tribe. All they had to eat was cornmeal, smoked herring, and pork. They had no oven so all their food was cooked outside.
She started to work when she was five years old. She was sold to James Cook to weave. That weaving made her cough and sneeze so she started watching muskrat traps in the icy river. She got a severe cough and a high fever. She was sent home to get better. When she was seven she started to baby-sit. She stole a lump of sugar one day and was going to get whipped so she ran away. When she came back she got whipped severely. This is when she learned to wear extra clothes to pad herself from the whip. She yelled just to keep her masters happy and to keep them from knowing she didn't really feel anything. When she was a teenager she was used as a field hand because that was her stronger point. She saw a slave running across the field and stepped in the way of the guard and ended up getting hit in the head with a 2-pound lead block. She was in a coma for weeks and ended up having blackouts for the rest of her life. Then, she was to be sold further south and prayed all the time that...

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