Transcript Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman
By Sarah Lorenz
Background
• BIRTH PLACE: Edward Brodas plantation near
Bucktown, Dorchester County, Maryland.
• Born in 1820 or 1821. Since she was a slave
her owners didn’t keep a good record of
birthdates.
• Didn’t have any education because owners
didn’t want
• In 1844 at the age of 25, she married John
Tubman, a free African American
Her Marriage
•If she ended up being sold her and
her husband would be spilt up.
•She wanted to run north but John
(Husband) says there was no reason
to go north to freedom. And if she ran
away he would tell her master.
Escape
• Harriet was given a piece of paper by a white
neighbor with two names, and told how to
find the first house on her path to freedom.
• She ended up in Philadelphia.
• There she met William Still who was one of
the Underground Railroad's busiest "station
masters."
Conductor
• Harriet was made an official "conductor" of the
UGRR. This meant that she knew all the routes to
free territory and she had to take an oath of
silence so the secret of the Underground
Railroad would be kept secret.
• She also made a second trip to the South to
rescue her brother James and other friends.
• Later went back to get her Husband but he had
gotten remarried and didn’t want to leave.
• After this Harriet Ran to Canada to finally be
free.
Civil War
• When she came back from Canada the War
had started, and she enlisted as a nurse for
the Union.
• In 1863 Harriet joined a group of spies to get
slaves informed about joining the Union army.
• In doing so she helped 500 slaves escape and
join the army.
My Opinion
Harriet Tubman I believed that she was a great
part of the war. She never gave up, she
dreamed of freedom and she got there. The
crazy part is, even when she was free she
came back to help. I believe that she was the
real meaning of the Civil war, never give up
and fight for what you believe in.
Bibliography
"Harriett Tubman biography." Lakewood Public
Library (Lakewood, Ohio). N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May
2011. <http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/tubmhar.htm>.
"Harriet Tubman timeline." Mathematics
Department. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May 2011.
<http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwnytubman.html>.