Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
On a cold night in the middle of winter, a weary slave ran across the field to the woods. There he met Harriet Tubman, the conductor, and the rest of her sore-footed but hopeful passengers who were ready to start the long, treacherous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, later called “Moses”, was a runaway slave who came back to her people and helped over 300 of them gain freedom. Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland to her slave parents Harriet Green and Ben Ross in 1822. Her mother worked as a cook for the Brodess family and her father was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on the Thompson’s plantation (Harriet Tubman par. 2). Because her mother was so busy in the kitchen, Harriet cared for her younger siblings, till she reached the age of six. When she was six, Brodess hired her out to be a nurse maid to Miss Susan. She was told to watch the baby while it slept but when the baby woke up and cried she was whipped. Her next job was to work for a planter named James Cook. She was assigned to checking the musket traps, even after she contracted measles. Sadly, she got so ill she was sent back to Brodess were her mother nursed her back to health.
When Harriet was 13 a slave tried to run away. The overseer threw a 2 pound metal weight at him but Harriet stood in the way. The weight hit her in the skull and caused her to be unconscious for days. Harriet never fully recovered and for the rest of her
One of the people that help get freedom is Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was nicknamed Moses, this nickname was given to her because she hel to free the slave like how Moses freed the Hebrews from Egypt. Her method to save the slaves was to come on Sunday because that’s when you can not report missing slaves. So that gave them a head start that day on the trail. She escorted about 300 slaves into freedom. Harriet Tubman was known in history for the person who help the most in the underground railroad. Petry, Ann. 2015. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. Open Road Media.
Araminta Ross( Harriet Tubman) was born in Maryland to Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross. As a child she was a slave. She would help plant tobacco. She hated her life as a slave. As she got older, she was hired out (sold) by Master Brodas to Mrs. Susan. One day while Mrs. Susan and her husband were quarreling, Minta (Araminta) stole a lump of sugar and Mrs. Susan saw her. Mr and Mrs. Susan chased Harriet for a couple minutes until they gave up. Minta hid in a pig pen fighting other pigs for food for a couple days. She soon got very hungry and had to go back. She was whipped very hard by Mr. Susan and got sent back to Master Brodas's plantation. One day when Minta went into a store she saw and oversee trying to whip up a slave. He told Minta to help him tie the slave, but she said no. Then the slave escaped. The oversee tried to through a weight at the slave, but the weight missed the slave a hit Minta in the
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
Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross in 1820 or 1821, on a plantation in Dorchester County, Buckton, Maryland, and the slave of Anthony Thompson. She was one of eleven children to
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist and humanitarian who was born in Dorchester County, Maryland around 1820-1825. She later passed away in Boston, Massachusetts in 1913. Harriet was born into slavery, but successfully escaped in the year of 1849. She later went on to become a leading abolitionist, returning multiple times to rescue both family members, as well as non-relatives from the plantation life. She led hundreds of enslaved African-Americans to freedom in the north. Harriet Tubman, being the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, constructed an elaborate and secretive network of safe houses that were organized in order to help slaves escape the southern slave states, to the safe haven of the northern states.
Harriet Tubman born somewhere in 1802 no one knows the day or month she was born they only know the year. Harriet tubman was born in Dorchester county. Harriet was originally named Araminta Harriet Ross. It was said that she changed her name to Harriet probably to honor her mother Harriet Greene when harriet was 12 years old. She was born a slave just like everyone in the family. When she was 12 years old she was told to help tie up a captured slave because he was attempting to go to the North. When Harriet realized the slave was going to be whipped for what he did she refuse to restrain the slave. So the angry overseer responded by throwing a 2 pound weight at Harriets head. Harriet sustained an injury that resulted in a lifetime of throbbing headaches and unexpected episodes of narcolepsy which caused her to fall into a deep sleep with little warning. Harriet escaped slavery in 1849 when she was about 29 years old but she didn't stay on free soil for long because she wanted to go back and give
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
We know her as the “Moses” of her people; she left a remarkable history on the tracks of the Underground Railroad that will never be forgotten. Harriet Tubman born into slavery around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a nurse, spy, social reformer and a feminist during a period of economic upheaval in the United States. For people to understand the life of Harriet Tubman, they should know about her background, her life as a slave, and as a free woman.
Harriet Tubman: A Biography is centered around Harriet Tubman born in Maryland born into slavery. She was the daughter of Benjamin Ross her father
Harriet Tubman is probably the most famous “conductor” of all the Underground Railroads. Throughout a 10-year span, Tubman made more than 20 trips down to the South and lead over 300 slaves from bondage to freedom. Perhaps the most shocking fact about Tubman’s journeys back and forth from the South was that she “never lost a single passenger.”
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”
Harriet Tubman 's background heavily impacted her beliefs as an adult. Harriet Tubman was born around the year 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. “She was the child of Benjamin Ross, and her mother, Harriet Greene. Her master 's name at the time was Edward Brodas” (Lesson). She was born into slavery and as soon as she could talk and walk, she was put to work. She worked as a house servant when only 6 years old and started to work on the fields at the age of 13 (ELibrary). Harriet was very uneducated and never learned to read or write. She learned to be strong and independent at a very young age because of the way she was treated by her parents and owner (Social Leaders). When Harriet entered her teen years, she refused to tie up a runaway slave when her owner ordered her to. Her disobedience angered her owner and he then threw a heavy weight
Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick thinking and her reactions to each ordeal she was faced with. She responded to them with a sharp mind, and strong faith in deliverance through the Lord.
As described in the novel “In their own words: Harriet Tubman,” Sullivan introduces varies hard-ships that Harriet had to endure during her childhood and adolescence stage. According to the author, Harriet suffered relentlessly from long hours of labor such as, setting muskrat traps during freezing winters and daily hard-work in the plantations. However, the worst occurred when Harriet at the age of twelve experienced a dreadful incident to where she witnessed a young man trying to escape from an overseer. Heroic Harriet ventured forth to block the path of the overseer, but alas got a heavy iron weight thrown at her head in the process. It took several months for her head injury to heal but the symptoms never alleviated—she would often have erratic sleeping disorders to the point in where she could not be woken up. In addition, due to this terrible incident she was not able to work well, and was returned to her master frequently for being claimed as “useless”. Since then, Harriet shocking head injury caused her life to
Harriet Tubman is considered a hero when she helped free slaves. She led them through the Underground Railroad since she knew the all the routes well. The Underground Railroad was a transport that would help slaves escape to freedom and it was certainly secretive. Each stop would go to a safe-house (Math.buffalo.edu). Harriet Tubman