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Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland’s Dorchester County in 1820 and she was also born as a slave, her actual name was Araminta Ross, then in 1844 she married a free black slave his name was John Tubman, and took his last name then she changed her first name to Harriet after her mothers name.

She became famous by the Underground Railroad where she had gotten slaves from the south and brought them to freedom, and she has never lost a single slave while guiding them to freedom. She also guided frederick Douglas to freedom, and she would make thirteen trips back and forth guiding more than 300 slaves to freedom in the 1850 through to 1858.

In her childhood she was hired to be a nursemaid for the owners baby, she always had to stay up all night to watch the baby and make sure the baby doesn’t cry and wake up the mother, and if Harriet ever did fall a sleep her owner or the baby’s mother would whip her.

Harriet was scared to be a helper for her owner because one of the owners other slaves went to the store without permission when he returned the owner was going to whip him and he asked Harriet to get the whip but she refused then the slave made a run for it the owner got a heavy iron weight threw it he missed the slave and hit Harriet right on the head and the heavy iron weight could of killed her but it didn’t and she suffered from seizures for the rest of her whole life and left a scar.

In 1849 she was scared that her and some other slaves will be sold so she decided to run but her husband did not so her and two other slaves went than halfway there then the two slaves got scared and ran back I forgot to mention that the two other slaves were her brothers, and when her brother ran back home she continued to follow the North star,...

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...er slaves. She was also a little girl when she ran from her owner in 1849 so yeah it takes guts to do that run from your owner and walk at least 90 miles or even more to get to the North.

When Harriet was living in Auburn, New York a senator named William H. Seward, Seward was grateful to Harriet because of all the slaves she saved so William H. Seward gave Harriet a pretty big piece of land for a reward of saving all the slaves she saved from the south.

Before Harriet died in March 10, 1913 she gave her home to some people that were elderly, and I’m guessing they owned a church and the church was called the Methodist Episcopal Zion church. Then after her death Harriet Tubman was buried and she was also buried with something called military rites, and she was also buried at a place called Fort Hill Cemetery. Thank you for reading my Document about Harriet Tubman.