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    Araminta Ross was born into slavery in Maryland´s eastern shore 1820. When she was older she was a field hand and faced harsh punishments . In 1849 she ran away from slavery , leaving her husband John Tubman and family behind to be able to escape and changed her name to Harriet Tubman . She returned to south at least nineteen time freeing her family and hundreds of other slave through an under railroad. How did she get all those slaves free without getting caught or stop by a slave . Well utilizing

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    as one with her brothers, sisters, mother, and father and had no schooling once so ever. But she later on escaped in 1849 and changed her name to Harriet Tubman to hide her identity from anyone who was looking for her. She got the name because even though slaves don’t have any “legal” marriages she still had one with a free man named John Tubman. Harriet had eight siblings in her family and they were all slaves but after she escaped and was best known for going back and saving her family and she even

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    What Was Harriet Tubman’s Greatest Achievement? “ I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” Thomas Jefferson once said. Harriet Tubman was a strong and brave African - American woman. She was born in Dorchester County, Maryland. She grew up in Bucktown, Maryland. She grew up like “a neglected weeds” (Background Essay). It showed that her childhood is not very lovely. At the age of 12, she was doing field work and hauling logs. When her master died, in 1849, she makes her life-changing

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    Brave, witty, and faithful are three words that people think of in connection to Harriet Tubman. Many people know that Harriet Tubman was an Underground railroad conductor, but she was also much more. As a freedom fighter Harriet Tubman showed the world that everyone is equal no matter what. She left a legacy as one of the most powerful woman to fight for freedom. The early life of Harriet Tubman was hard and painful, both of her parents being slaves automatically made her a slave as well. Born

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    Harriet Tubman, a runaway slave, helped so many blacks escape to freedom that she became the ‘‘Moses’’ of her people. She was born in 1820 in Bucktown, Maryland and died in 1913 in Auburn, New York. During the civil war, she served the union army as a nurse, cook scout, and spy for four years. In 1844, Harriet married a free black man, John Tubman. She left him in 1849. She married Nelson Davis in 1870 and stayed with him.She traveled at night and day guided by the underground railroad a secret

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    their individual freedom; some failed while others succeeded. Harriet Tubban, Sojourner Truth, and Fredrick Douglass not only fought for freedom in their own ways, but they were also heroes and role models to those around them. Tubman was born into slavery in 1822 in Maryland. All throughout Tubman’s life she was a true fighter for equality. She was a courageous woman for all the things she had to do. During the dead of night Tubman would help many hundreds of slaves get over to freedom across the

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    Tubman was a very successful abolitionist; she led hundreds of slaves to freedom and never lost a single follower nor was she ever caught. When Tubman was born around the year 1820 she was born into slavery, both her mother and father were slaves. In the year 1849, Harriet and two of her brothers had fled from slavery leaving behind the rest of her family. She made the decision to flee after the death of her owner in 1849. Her brothers made the decision to go back to the plantation, while she refused

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    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

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    Harriet Tubman was abolitionist most known for escaping slavery in the south and freeing others. She was a leader in the American Civil War and conducted the Underground railroad during 1820 to 1913. She was born a slave and left her family behind in order to escaped in 1849. Her courageousness made her a humanitarian, abolitionist, and spy during the the Civil War. Harriet Tubman was born in Maryland and her original name was Araminta Harriet Ross. She was born to enslaved parents and had eight

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    * Harriet Tubman was and still is a very important women in today’s society. She was an American woman who escaped from slavery in the South who then became an abolitionist before the American Civil War. Born in Maryland in 1820, and escaped slavery in 1849. She decided to return to rescue both family members and non-relatives from slavery. She led many people to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad which was a secret network of safe houses organized for

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