Harriet Tubm A Biography

I'm doing my book report on Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry. It was first published in 1855.This story occurs during slavery in the 18200s. The main character is Harriet Tubman. There are seven lesser main characters. First is Harriet Greene, who is Harriet Tubman's mother. Next is Benjamin Ross, Harriet's (Tubman) father. Then is Edward Brodas, Harriet's (and her families) master. After that is John Tubman, Harriet(Tubman)'s ex-husband. Nelson Davis is Harriet's husband. John Browley is Harriet(Tubman)'s brother in law. Finally is Mary Browley, Harriet's(Tubman) sister.

Around the year of 1849 Harriet’s owners died of an illness and she decided to escape with her two brothers. When Tubman suggested to her husband about her idea to run away he refused to even acknowledge the idea and told her he would tell the authorities where she was headed if she tried to leave.Tubman did not let that stop her. One night Tubman had to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night to leave because she was scared he would betray her. A little while into their journey

Harriet returned home to Auburn, New York after the Civil War had ended. By then, her mother and father were elder and had a system supporting them during Harriet’s absence. They still needed her financial support to carry them (Civil war). In 1867 harriet had found out that her former husband, John Tubman had been killed with a white man named Robert Vincent. He wasn’t ever convicted. Although she was never legally married to John, there was an informal marriage just like all the others who lived in slavery. They loved each other, but he moved on (Civil War). In 1869 Harriet met a guy named Nelson Davis. He was a man who had looked for a shelter in her home. He had been a former slave in North Carolina. He served as a soldier in the Civil

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County Maryland in 1820. She was called Araminta Harriet Ross she was one of the 11 children of Benjamin and Harriet Green Ross. At the age of twelve Harriet Tubman was instructed to tie up a fellow slave for a whipping. Harriet Tubman refused to tie up the slave and in Harriet’s masters rage he threw a two pound weight at Harriet’s head. Harriet Tubman was in a coma for weeks and there was a dent in her forehead for the rest of her life. This resulted in headaches and episodes of narcolepsy all throughout her life. Harriet Tubman’s mother was freed from slavery by a previous owner which in result also made Harriet free. Harriet Tubman was advised not to go to court because of how long ago the freeing of her mother was. Harriet Tubman married John Tubman a free black man who lived near the Brodas Planation on which Harriet lived in 1844. Even though she was married to a free man she still was a slave

As you will soon see, Harriet Tubman is a famous heroine in history who did extraordinary acts of generosity. Harriet Ross was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland. She worked all day along with her family under Master Edward. One day while working on the plantation, her sister Tilly was sold to another plantation, leaving Harriet and her family behind.

The second contribution of Harriet Tubman is that she was a conductor in the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the south. On her first trip in 1850, Tubman bought her sister and her sister’s two children out of slavery in Maryland. In 1851, she helped her brother out of slavery, and in 1857 she returned to Maryland to guide her old parents back to freedom. Overall Tubman made about nineteen trips to the south and guided about three hundred slaves to freedom. But during those travels Tubman faced great danger in order not to get caught she would use disguises and carries a sleeping powder to stop babies from crying and also always carried a pistol in case one of the people back out once the journey has begun( Strawberry 1).

He found a new wife while Harriet Tubman was gone, and decided that he wanted to stay behind with his new wife. Even after bringing her family over, she was still not done with the Underground Railroad. She soon succeeded in bringing over three hundred slaves through the Underground Railroad. However, Harriet Tubman did struggle through bringing these people over when the Fugitive Slave Law was passed. Unfortunately, this law allowed people from the south to take escaped slaves from the north back to their owners in the south.

she escaped with her two brothers ben and harry. her brothers had second thoughts and and was scared so they returned to the plantation. Harriet use the Underground Railroad to travel about ninety miles to philadelphia. Once Tubman got to the free state of philadelphia she felt relieved but rather than staying in a free and safe place she decide to go back and rescue slaves. December of 1850 she found out that her cousin and children were being sold harriet and her cousin's husband made the winning bis at the auction. She then helped them get to philadelphia was nicknamed “Moses” for her leadership. she rescued several family members and about sixty others to freedom, but later in the year of 1850 the dynamic of escaping slavery changed with the message of the fugitive Slave Law which said that escaped slaves could be captured in the north and be returned to slavery. In response to this new law Harriet re-routed the underground railroad to canada. Tubman stayed active during the civil war working as a cook and nurse. She soon became a armed scout and spy and lead an expedition in the war. she guided the Combahee River Raid which freed more than 700 slaves in South

Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the south to become a leading abolitionist before the American civil war. She was born in maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. Yet she returned many times to rescue both her family members and non-relatives from the plantation system.

In 1844 however she got married to a free black man. His name was John Tubman and she took his last name while also changing her first to be the same as her mothers and that is where Harriet Tubman came from. After 5 years of being together though Harriet was worried of being sold and tried to convince her husband to run away with her, but he said he would not go with her. So she decided to run away with two of her brothers being helped by people on the underground railroad. Eventually reaching freedom she felt empty because she was not able to enjoy being free with the people she loved. So to solve this conflict she decided to go back and rescue family and friends. William Lloyd Garrison nicknamed her “Moses”. Which is a biblical analogy because Moses attempted to take the Jews to the promised land and free from their

Before Harriet Tubman became a vocal point in the Underground Railroad she grew up a slave. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Tubman’s original name was really Araminta Ross and was usually called by her nickname “Minty”. Tubman would experience the life of slavery very quickly as she was hired to take care of an infant. She was far too young to handle the duties of housework and would be abused multiple times. Her first real incident happened when the child she was looking after was crying and was heard from one of the mistresses and was whipped around her neck. She would go on in her childhood doing more house jobs and eventually collected furs from traps.

(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.

In 1849, Tubman set her mind of escaping to the north. On September 17, 1849, Tubman with her two brothers, Ben and Harry, left Maryland. After seeing runaway notice offering $300, Ben and Harry had reconsiderations and returned to the plantation. Tubman, with her strong will, continued to escape nearly 90 miles to Philadelphia for her freedom using the secret network known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was neither a rail road nor underground. The routes taken at night to were called “lines” and at places they stopped to rest were called “stationed”. “Conductors” such as Harriet Tubman and Quaker Thomas used their knowledge and luck to securely free slaves from slave states to the Free states. (Biography, 2017) As she cross the state line into Pennsylvania she recalled “When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”

In 1844, Harriet received permission from her master to marry John Tubman, a free black man. For the next five years Harriet lived in a state of semi-slavery: she remained legally a slave, but her master allowed her to live with her husband. Since Harriet was still a slave she knew there was a chance that she could be sold and her marriage split apart. Harriet dreamed of traveling north. There, she would be free and not have to worry about her marriage being split up by the slave trade. But John did not want her to go north. He said he was fine where he was and that there was no reason for moving north. He told her that if she ran off, he would tell her master. She did not believe him until she saw his face and then she knew he meant it.

Harriet Tubman was an important African American who ran away from slavery and guided runaway slaves to the north for years. During the Civil War she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that, she worked for the rights of blacks and women.