Harriet Tubman And The Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman was a second generation slave born in the 1820s in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was born a slave. Her birth name was Aramita Ross, her nicknames were Minty, Moses, and Moses Of Her People. She was one of eleven children in her family. Her parents were Harriet Green, nicknamed “Old Rit” and Benjamin Ross. They were believed to be full blooded African Americans, Ashanti West African war people. Harriet’s owner, Edward Brodas, was a plantation owner and often rented Harriet out to neighboring families. At age 7 she was sent to take care of a baby, she tried to eat a sugar cube, but got caught, she ran and hid. After a few days hunger got the best of

Harriet Tubman was hit in the head at a young age, giving her frequent seizures throughout her whole life, while stealthily traveling hundreds of miles on foot. In an article titled “Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” by the Bill of Rights Institute, says “As an enslaved child, she endured a severe head injury when an overseer hurled a lead weight at her in

Tubman was subjected to violence regularly, including lashings and beatings. The most severe trauma occurred when Harriet was a teenager, and she was struck with a two-pound weight by an overseer. She suffered from “seizures, severe headaches and narcoleptic episodes for the rest of her life. She also experienced intense dream states, which she classified as religious experiences.” (Bio.com)

Tubman feared for her own safety as well as the safety of the travelers with her.” During this time, a thing called the fugitive slave act was in place, which called for any runaway slaves that went to the north to be returned to the south. This made her job very difficult and required a lot of concentration, or else she might have been re-enslaved or executed, considering the troubles she had caused. With so much of an impact and risk taken during the abolitionist movement, her remarks did not go unnoticed. During this time, Tubman's actions encouraged countless people to continue to persevere throughout the movement.

. . Every time I saw a White man I was afraid of being carried away. I had two sisters carried away in a chain gang—one of them left two children. We were always uneasy... I think slavery is the next thing to hell." (Lerone Bennett Jr. 2005). At some point in time Araminta Ross name was changed to the same name as her mother Harriet. She was sold to James Cook to weave. The weaving often made her cough and sneeze. She would get severe coughs and fevers. Like many slaves, Harriet was often whipped. One day she stole a lump of sugar from Miss Susan, in fear of getting whipped she ran away for four days. However, when she returned home she was whipped severely. She learned a great lesson from this experience; she should put on layers of clothes so it wouldn’t hurt as much when she was being whipped.

Harriet Tubman was born in the year of 1820 into a family of 8 children and two parents of who were all slaves. Harriet’s real name was Araminta Harriet Ross yet she later changed her name to Harriet around the time she was married to John Tubman. Harriet’s life as a slave was hard like many other slaves lives during that time. When Harriet Tubman was around 12 years old she was hit in the head by a two pound weight when she refused to hold down a runaway slave, because of this she suffered through sleeping spells and sever headaches throughout her life, this was called Narcolepsy. Harriet was married in 1844 to a free black man named John Tubman. She ran away in 1951 using the underground railroad. Once she was freed

Even though, Tubman discontinued making trips to the south and also discontinued working in the union army she was still helping guarantee rights for blacks. After returning to Auburn, New York she married Nelson Davis and lived in a home on South Street. After settling down there, Tubman helped Auburn to remain a center of support of women rights. She also built as wooden structure that served as her home for the aged and indigent. There she worked and was

Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Maryland. Her parents were born as slaves and the name they gave her when she was born was Araminta Ross. She had four brothers and three sisters. Her four brother’s name are Ben Ross, Robert Ross, Henry Ross, and Moses Ross and her two sister’s name are Mariah Ritty Ross and Linah Ross. Her early job is being a nursemaid at other households and she gets beaten up by the masters when she experienced physical violence and had permanent injuries from her abuse. She also suffered a traumatic head injury that caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia that happened throughout her life. In 1844, She married a free black man named John Tubman, but then he was in loved with another woman and in 1849 she escaped

Firstly, I will describe Tubman’s early life.Born Araminta Ross , c, 1820 in Dorchester County Maryland,She later changed her name

(Harriet Tubman was originally born Araminta Ross and then later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, Tubman ran away in fear that she, along with many other slaves on the plantation were going to be sold off. Harriet Tubman left on foot. Luckily, Tubman was given some assistance from a white woman, and was able to set off on her journey to freedom. Tubman used the North Star in order to find her direction during the night, slowly inching her way to Pennsylvania. Once Tubman had reached Pennsylvania, she found a job and began to save her money. The following year after arriving to Philadelphia, Tubman returned to Maryland and to lead her family to freedom. Among the people she took was her sister and her sister’s two children. Tubman was able to make the same dangerous trips months later back to the South to rescue her brother and two other men that her brother knew. On Tubman’s third return to the South to rescue her husband, she found that he had found another wife. Undeterred by her husband’s actions, she rescued other slaves wanting freedom and lead them Northward.

Harriet Tubman is well known for a successful role in freeing many slaves through the Underground Railroad. Not many know the major effect she had on the Union Army as a Scout and a spy during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering Confederate troops intelligence as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States National Defense. Even though Harriet Tubman was a very skillful spy, she had many indicators that were missed while she was spied for intelligence and reported the material which were compromised to her handler.

The death of her master in 1847, followed by the death of his young son and heir in 1849, made Tubman's status uncertain. Amid rumors that the family's slaves would be sold to settle the estate, Tubman fled to the North and found freedom. But when there, in Philadelphia, she grew terribly lonely. She worked for the year and saved her money, determined to bring "her people" to freedom, as well. In 1850 Harriet helped her first slaves escape: her sister and her sisters two children. That

     Harriet Tubman was really named Araminta Ross, but she later adopted her mother’s first name. She was one of eleven children of Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross. She was five when she worked on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was first a maid, and a children’s nurse before she started working as a field hand when she was twelve. While she was thirteen, her master hit her head with a heavy weight. The hit put permanent

Slavery has always been an anomaly, although abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman did much to ameliorate, and later, abolish slavery. Harriet was a strong and courageous woman and a well-known conductor of the Underground Railroads, around the 1850s. Harriet Tubman personal experiences throughout her life have shaped her to become the stout-hearted woman who helped many slaves escape to freedom, by using the Underground Railroad—a network of secret routes.

Slavery was a mental and physical degrading system keeping human beings such as Harriet Tubman in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from gaining freedom. Tubman was born into slavery following the status of her enslaved mother; she recalls a wonderful childhood due to being naive about the slave system. However, as Tubman becomes old enough to work, she is under the power of her owner 's father, Mr. Flint, who does not let her out of his sight. Harriet Tubman becomes a victim of obsession as well as sexual harassment; she felt the perverted stares of her master, she received derogatory letters outlining his desires for her and made her feel worthless. Tubman tried to escape these perversions by telling her master 's wife, Mrs. Flint,