Araminta Ross: A Brief Biography Of Harriet Tubman

Araminta Ross, also known as Harriet Tubman, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her date of birth is unknown, but people believe she was born between 1819 and 1823. Tubman changed her name to Harriet, after her mother, in 1844 when she married a free black man, John Tubman. Harriet Tubman was the fifth of nine children from Harriet Greene and Ben Ross. She had eight siblings, four of which were brothers, and four of which were sisters. Her brothers were Mosses Ross, born in 1832, Ben Ross, born in 1823, Henry Ross born in 1830, and Robert Ross, born in 1816. Her sisters were Linah Ross, born in 1808, Rachel Ross, born in 1825, Mariah Ritty Ross, born in 1811, and Soph Ross, born in 1813. Her father, Ben Ross, was a timber inspector who watch and managed his slave owner, Thompson, at the timbering interests on the Eastern Shore. Thompson has owned slaves - more than forty African Americans - during his lifetime. Although he was a slave owner he contributed to Harriet Tubman and her family. Ben Ross, the father, and Harriet Greene, the mother met at Thompson’s house, they married and started their own family during 1808. In the 17th century, when enslaved

“In 1944, the National Council of Negro Women donated a Liberty ship in honor of Harriet Tubman. The ship was named S.S. Harriet Tubman, the first Liberty ship for black women, and was sent out to South Portland, Maine. She also received the National Historic Landmark status in Auburn, New York on 1974 (Harriet Tubman Bibliography).” Tubman believed that people should be free, and have the same benefits as all free people. Harriet Tubman would not rest and risked her life helping slaves to become free. In addition to helping to free slaves, Tubman also made had a huge impact during the Civil War times. Her life was very long and productive, and without Harriet Tubman’s determination, over 300 slaves would not have became