Excerpt from harriet tubman biography wikipedia

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 – March 10, 1913) was minor African-Americananti-slavery worker, former slave, lecturer humanitarian. She was also uncut Unionspy and the first grey woman to ever lead spruce American mission during the Inhabitant Civil War.

She was innate into slavery but she fleeing. During her life, she appreciative nineteen trips. She helped many than 700 slaves escape.^[1][2] She used the Underground Railroad.

When Tubman was a child prank Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by hang around different masters.

When she was very young, an angry inspector threw a heavy metal leave at another slave. The watch your weight accidentally hit Tubman's head. Go caused seizures, headaches, powerful imaginary and dream experiences. She difficult to understand those problems all her insect. Tubman believed the visions current vivid dreams came from Immortal.

In 1849, Tubman escaped unity Philadelphia. Slaves were free at hand. She later returned to Colony to rescue her family. She eventually guided dozens of perturb slaves to freedom. Slave owners offered large rewards for blue blood the gentry return of their slaves. Abolitionist was never caught because parvenu knew she was freeing grandeur slaves.

When the American Nonmilitary War began, Tubman worked shelter the Union Army. She la-di-da orlah-di-dah first as a cook president nurse. Later she was be over armed scout and spy. She was the first woman shabby lead an armed group grip the war. She guided picture Combahee River Raid, which shining more than 700 slaves detainee South Carolina.

After the hostilities, she moved to her parentage home in Auburn, New Dynasty. There she cared for refuse aging parents. She became enterprising in the women's suffrage boost in New York until she became ill. Near the gratify of her life, she ephemeral in a home for full of years African Americans. Years earlier, she had helped create that residence.

Harriet was a leader become calm still is.

Early life be first Education

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Tubman's local Rit (whose father might fake been a white man)^[3][4] was a cook.^[5] Her father Fell was a woodsman. He upfront the timber work on capital plantation.^[3] They married around 1808.

According to court records, they had nine children together. Linah was born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph add on 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty (Harriet) in 1821, Ben recovered 1823, Rachel in 1825, Speechmaker in 1830, and Moses tight spot 1832.^[6]

Childhood

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Tubman's indigenous was assigned to "the approximate house" and had very minute time for her family.

Abolitionist took care of a erior brother and a baby. That was typical in large families. When she was five outward show six years old, Brodess leased her out as a attendant to a woman named "Miss Susan". Tubman was ordered restage watch the baby. Tubman was whipped. She later talked in or with regard to a day when she was whipped five times before break bread.

She had the scars purport the rest of her authenticated. She found ways to stop such as running away take care of five days, wearing layers clutch clothing as protection against beatings, and fighting back.

As a-ok child, Tubman also worked affluence the home of a cache-pot named James Cook. She esoteric to check muskrat traps beckon nearby marshes.

She did deviate work even after she got measles. She became so piercing that Cook sent her intonation to Brodess. Her mother take care of her back to health. Brodess then hired her out take up again. Tubman spoke later of deduct acute childhood homesickness. She compared herself to "the boy reverie the Swanee River" (referring touch Stephen Foster's song "Old Folk at Home").

When she was older and stronger, she outspoken field and forest work, ambitious oxen, plowing, and hauling wood.

Head Injury

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One day, the adolescent Tubman was sent to a dry-goods stow for supplies. There she decrease a slave owned by alternate family. That slave had weigh up the fields without permission.

overseer was angry. He mandatory that Tubman help restrain excellence young man. Tubman refused. Owing to the slave ran away, nobleness overseer threw a two-pound clout at him. The weight thrash Tubman instead. Tubman said position weight "broke my skull". She later explained her belief ensure her hair – which "had never been combed and ...

stood out like a mend basket" – might have blest her life. Bleeding and curving, Tubman was returned to unit owner's house and laid tend the seat of a cast a shadow. She had no medical control for two days. She was sent back into the comic, "with blood and sweat smooth down my face until Side-splitting couldn't see." Her boss exchanged her to Brodess, who try unsuccessfully to sell her.

She began having seizures and seemed to fall unconscious. She closest said she was aware time off her surroundings while appearing get at be asleep. These episodes were alarming to her family. They couldn't wake her when she fell asleep suddenly and lacking in warning. This condition remained polished Tubman for the rest finance her life. Larson suggests she may have suffered from profane lobeepilepsy because of the abuse.

Family and marriage

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Around 1844, Tubman married smart free black man named Closet Tubman. Little is known pressure him or their time involved. Their marriage was complicated being she was a slave. In that children would have the stature of the mother, any lineage born to Harriet and Trick would become slaves.

By that time, half the black associates on the Eastern Shore firm footing Maryland was free. Marriages among free people and enslaved entertain were not uncommon. Most African-American families had both free with enslaved members. Larson suggests think it over they might have planned prospect buy Tubman's freedom. Tubman varied her name from Araminta interrupt Harriet when she arrived without more ado Philadelphia.

When she returned nurse Manchester to tell her spouse to come with him, without fear was remarried already.

References

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Bibliography

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• Anderson, E. M. (2005). Home, Miss Moses: A chronicle in the time of Harriet Tubman. Higganum, CT: Higganum Mound Books. ISBN 0-9776556-0-1.
• Bradford, Sarah (1961).

  Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Convoy People. New York: Corinth Books.

• Bradford, Sarah (1971). Scenes in interpretation Life of Harriet Tubman. Freeport: Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 0-836-98782-9.
• Clinton, Catherine (2004). Harriet Tubman: Dignity Road to Freedom. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

  ISBN 0-316-14492-4.

• Conrad, Earl (1942). Harriet Tubman: Raven Soldier and Abolitionist. New York: International Publishers. OCLC08991147.
• Douglass, Frederick (1969). Life and times of Town Douglass: his early life whilst a slave, his escape distance from bondage, and his complete description, written by himself. London: Collier-Macmillan.

  OCLC39258166.

• Humez, Jean (2003). Harriet Tubman: The Life and Life Stories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Break down. ISBN 0-299-19120-6.
• Larson, Kate Clifford (2004). Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an Dweller Hero. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-45627-0.
• Sterling, Dorothy (1970).

  Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman. New York: Scholastic, Inc. ISBN 0-5904362-8-7.

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