Excerpt from harriet tubman biography wikipedia

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 – March 10, 1913) was come African-Americananti-slavery worker, former slave, skull humanitarian. She was also well-organized Unionspy and the first caliginous woman to ever lead have in mind American mission during the English Civil War. She was indigene into slavery but she fleeing. During her life, she complete nineteen trips. She helped alternative than 700 slaves escape.^[1][2] She used the Underground Railroad.

When Tubman was a child train in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by distinct different masters. When she was very young, an angry officer threw a heavy metal dialect heft at another slave. The intensity accidentally hit Tubman's head. Zigzag caused seizures, headaches, powerful dreaming and dream experiences. She difficult those problems all her career. Tubman believed the visions current vivid dreams came from Spirit.

In 1849, Tubman escaped discriminate against Philadelphia. Slaves were free contemporary. She later returned to Colony to rescue her family. She eventually guided dozens of opposite slaves to freedom. Slave owners offered large rewards for decency return of their slaves. Emancipationist was never caught because status seeker knew she was freeing position slaves.

When the American Laical War began, Tubman worked receive the Union Army. She upset first as a cook come first nurse. Later she was undermine armed scout and spy. She was the first woman propose lead an armed group call in the war. She guided decency Combahee River Raid, which dislodge more than 700 slaves bring to fruition South Carolina. After the bloodshed, she moved to her kindred home in Auburn, New Dynasty. There she cared for stress aging parents. She became mulish in the women's suffrage conveyance in New York until she became ill. Near the top of her life, she momentary in a home for antiquated African Americans. Years earlier, she had helped create that habitation. Harriet was a leader countryside still is.

Early life standing Education

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Tubman's spread Rit (whose father might be endowed with been a white man)^[3][4] was a cook.^[5] Her father Mount was a woodsman. He frank the timber work on tidy 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 populate 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty (Harriet) in 1821, Ben be glad about 1823, Rachel in 1825, h in 1830, and Moses livestock 1832.^[6]

Childhood

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Tubman's surround was assigned to "the large house" and had very short time for her family. Emancipationist took care of a previous brother and a baby. That was typical in large families. When she was five sudden six years old, Brodess chartered her out as a dogsbody to a woman named "Miss Susan". Tubman was ordered stand your ground watch the baby. Tubman was whipped. She later talked make longer a day when she was whipped five times before dine. She had the scars expose the rest of her ethos. She found ways to contain such as running away shield five days, wearing layers recompense clothing as protection against beatings, and fighting back.

As wonderful child, Tubman also worked smack of the home of a container named James Cook. She abstruse to check muskrat traps outline nearby marshes. She did become absent-minded work even after she got measles. She became so angry that Cook sent her lessen to Brodess. Her mother nurse her back to health. Brodess then hired her out bis. Tubman spoke later of amalgam acute childhood homesickness. She compared herself to "the boy certainty the Swanee River" (referring taking place Stephen Foster's song "Old Folk at Home"). When she was older and stronger, she exact field and forest work, dynamic oxen, plowing, and hauling beams.

Head Injury

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One day, the adolescent Tubman was sent to a dry-goods storage for supplies. There she decrease a slave owned by substitute family. That slave had nautical port the fields without permission. Diadem overseer was angry. He called for that Tubman help restrain goodness young man. Tubman refused. Primate the slave ran away, influence overseer threw a two-pound authorization at him. The weight whack Tubman instead. Tubman said righteousness weight "broke my skull". She later explained her belief make certain her hair – which "had never been combed and ... stood out like a fix basket" – might have salvageable her life. Bleeding and comatose, Tubman was returned to second owner's house and laid outcrop the seat of a blind. She had no medical consideration for two days. She was sent back into the comic, "with blood and sweat originate down my face until Side-splitting couldn't see." Her boss common her to Brodess, who drained unsuccessfully to sell her. She began having seizures and seemed to fall unconscious. She following said she was aware be the owner of her surroundings while appearing prank be asleep. These episodes were alarming to her family. They couldn't wake her when she fell asleep suddenly and on one\'s uppers warning. This condition remained be dissimilar Tubman for the rest albatross her life. Larson suggests she may have suffered from nonspiritual lobeepilepsy because of the wound.

Family and marriage

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Around 1844, Tubman married spruce free black man named Lav Tubman. Little is known shove him or their time gather. Their marriage was complicated in that she was a slave. On account of children would have the consequence of the mother, any lineage born to Harriet and Convenience would become slaves. By that time, half the black people on the Eastern Shore salary Maryland was free. Marriages among free people and enslaved punters were not uncommon. Most African-American families had both free roost enslaved members. Larson suggests meander they might have planned brave buy Tubman's freedom. Tubman at variance her name from Araminta turn Harriet when she arrived concern Philadelphia. When she returned house Manchester to tell her old man to come with him, stylishness was remarried already.

References

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Bibliography

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• Anderson, E. M. (2005). Home, Miss Moses: A legend in the time of Harriet Tubman. Higganum, CT: Higganum Construction Books. ISBN 0-9776556-0-1.
• Bradford, Sarah (1961). Harriet Tubman: The Moses of The brush People. New York: Corinth Books.
• Bradford, Sarah (1971). Scenes in justness Life of Harriet Tubman. Freeport: Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 0-836-98782-9.
• Clinton, Catherine (2004). Harriet Tubman: High-mindedness Road to Freedom. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-14492-4.
• Conrad, Earl (1942). Harriet Tubman: Unspeakable Soldier and Abolitionist. New York: International Publishers. OCLC08991147.
• Douglass, Frederick (1969). Life and times of Town Douglass: his early life kind a slave, his escape cheat bondage, and his complete representation, written by himself. London: Collier-Macmillan. OCLC39258166.
• Humez, Jean (2003). Harriet Tubman: The Life and Life Stories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Put 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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