Biography of Harriet Tubman

Biography of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 on a large plantation in Dorchester County,

Maryland. She was the sixth of eleven children. She was born in a very

small on-room log hut, that was located behind her families owners house.

The huthad a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture. Her fater, Benjamin

Ross, and mother, Harriet Green, were both slaves. They were from the

Ashanti ribe of West Africa. Edward Brodas, Harriet's owner, hired her out

as a laborer by the age of five.

The buying and selling of humans was a big deal in America between the

late 1600's and the 1800's. By 1835 there were over two million black men,

women, and children who were slaves. These people were bought and sold. No

one cared if husbands and wives got weparated or if children were separated

from their parents. Slaves were not treated like people. No one really

cared what happend to them.

Harriet was beaten by her masters all the time. They saw as a wild child.

One tiem, Harriet saw a bowl filled with lumps of suger and decided to take

one. Harriet's mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasing

her with a whip. Harriet ran away and hid out with the pigs. She ahd to go

bakc, because she was really hungrey. When she went back she got whipped

over and over again. She said, "Now you know, I never had anything good, no

sweet, no suger, and that sugar right by me did look so nice."

By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work inside, so she

was hired out as a filed hand. She work very hard and long hours out in the

fields. There was no such thing as a rest for slaves.

In 1835, Harriet came between her owner and a slave who was running away.

The owner threw a lead weight, that weighed 2 punds, at the runaway, but it

hit Harriet instead. the hit put hir in a coma and it took months for her to

recover. She never fully recovered from the hit and after that suffered from

blackouts, really bad headaches, and sleeping spelss for the rest of her

life. In 1844, Harriet meet a free black man named John Tubman. They got

married, but Harriet was still a slave. They got to stay in his cabin at

night. Harriet's owner died and she knew she was going to be sold to

someone else. She was really afraid of being shipped to the deep south. The

deep south was the worse p...

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...odist Episcopal Zion Church. In 1897, Queen victoria awarded

Harriet a silver medal for being so brave. The church cimpleted the hime and

it was done by 1908. Harriet got old and sick. She died of pneumonia n

March 10, 1913. She lived to be 93 years old.

Harriet had a hard childhood, but that made her the brave and caring

woman she was. She risked her own life over and over again to free family

and other slaves. harriet spent most of her life working to make life better

for other people, and she did a really good job at ti. She was a very strong

woman and she didn't let anything get in her way. Harriet Tubman opened up

the eyes of white people all over America and told them why slavery was so

wrong.

WORKS CITED

Merton Dillon, Teh Abolitionists: The growth of a dissnting Minority, pg 187

David Alder, A story of Young Harriet Tubman, pg 22

Mark Buller, Harriet Tubman: her Courageous Story, pg 45

Free states versus Slave States, The World Book of encyclopedia, pg 475-480

Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery: 1830-1860, pg 203

Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People, pg 56

Tim Hopkinson, Railroad to Freedom pg 142