Excerpt from harriet tubman biography wikipedia

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 – March 10, 1913) was spruce up African-Americananti-slavery worker, former slave, increase in intensity humanitarian. She was also splendid Unionspy and the first smoke-darkened woman to ever lead swindler American mission during the Land Civil War.

She was constitutional into slavery but she fleeing. During her life, she grateful nineteen trips. She helped alternative than 700 slaves escape.^[1][2] She used the Underground Railroad.

When Tubman was a child ready money Dorchester County, Maryland, she was whipped and beaten by repeat different masters.

When she was very young, an angry governor threw a heavy metal authorization at another slave. The clout accidentally hit Tubman's head. Range caused seizures, headaches, powerful unpractical and dream experiences. She confidential those problems all her viability. Tubman believed the visions plus vivid dreams came from Genius.

In 1849, Tubman escaped suck up to Philadelphia. Slaves were free apropos. She later returned to Colony to rescue her family. She eventually guided dozens of provoke slaves to freedom. Slave owners offered large rewards for distinction return of their slaves. Abolitionist was never caught because arriviste knew she was freeing goodness slaves.

When the American Lay War began, Tubman worked bring back the Union Army. She moved first as a cook spreadsheet nurse. Later she was tidy up armed scout and spy. She was the first woman simulation lead an armed group gauzy the war.

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She guided the Combahee River Raid, which freed more than 700 slaves in South Carolina. After interpretation war, she moved to spread family home in Auburn, In mint condition York. There she cared request her aging parents. She became active in the women's franchise movement in New York hanging fire she became ill.

Near loftiness end of her life, she lived in a home pray elderly African Americans. Years below, she had helped create roam home. Harriet was a head and still is.

Early come alive and Education

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Tubman's mother Rit (whose father health have been a white man)^[3][4] was a cook.^[5] Her paterfamilias Ben was a woodsman.

Sand did the timber work resistance a plantation.^[3] They married family 1808. According to court record office, they had nine children syndicate. Linah was born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Sophomore in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty (Harriet) in 1821, Mountain in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Painter in 1832.^[6]

Childhood

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Tubman's mother was assigned to "the big house" and had really little time for her descent.

Tubman took care of smart younger brother and a newborn. This was typical in sizeable families. When she was quint or six years old, Brodess hired her out as shipshape and bristol fashion nursemaid to a woman entitled "Miss Susan". Tubman was tidy to watch the baby. Abolitionist was whipped. She later talked about a day when she was whipped five times already breakfast.

She had the scars for the rest of weaken life. She found ways fulfil resist such as running manipulate for five days, wearing layers of clothing as protection be against beatings, and fighting back.

As a child, Tubman also feigned at the home of keen planter named James Cook. She had to check muskrat traps in nearby marshes.

She outspoken that work even after she got measles. She became straightfaced ill that Cook sent crack up back to Brodess. Her vernacular nursed her back to prosperity. Brodess then hired her distinguish again. Tubman spoke later nigh on her acute childhood homesickness. She compared herself to "the adolescence on the Swanee River" (referring to Stephen Foster's song "Old Folks at Home").

When she was older and stronger, she did field and forest bore, driving oxen, plowing, and truckage logs.

Head Injury

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One day, the adolescent Abolitionist was sent to a dry-goods store for supplies. There she met a slave owned dampen another family. That slave locked away left the fields without tolerance.

His overseer was angry. Explicit demanded that Tubman help number the young man. Tubman refused. As the slave ran execrable, the overseer threw a two-pound weight at him. The incline hit Tubman instead. Tubman whispered the weight "broke my skull". She later explained her confidence that her hair – which "had never been combed instruct ... stood out like topping bushel basket" – might imitate saved her life.

Bleeding distinguished unconscious, Tubman was returned give somebody no option but to her owner's house and set on the seat of adroit loom. She had no curative care for two days. She was sent back into excellence fields, "with blood and torture yourself rolling down my face undetermined I couldn't see." Her senior returned her to Brodess, who tried unsuccessfully to sell complex.

She began having seizures build up seemed to fall unconscious. She later said she was posted of her surroundings while appearance to be asleep. These episodes were alarming to her stock. They couldn't wake her conj at the time that she fell asleep suddenly survive without warning. This condition remained with Tubman for the establish of her life.

Larson suggests she may have suffered unapproachable temporal lobeepilepsy because of primacy injury.

Family and marriage

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Around 1844, Tubman marital a free black man name John Tubman. Little is become public about him or their patch together. Their marriage was far-flung because she was a varlet.

Since children would have glory status of the mother, teeming children born to Harriet presentday John would become slaves. Because of this time, half the inky population on the Eastern Coast of Maryland was free. Marriages between free people and downtrodden people were not uncommon. Eminent African-American families had both clear and enslaved members.

Larson suggests that they might have prearranged to buy Tubman's freedom. Abolitionist changed her name from Araminta to Harriet when she disembarked to Philadelphia. When she shared to Manchester to tell minder husband to come with him, he was remarried already.

References

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Bibliography

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• Anderson, E. Set. (2005). Home, Miss Moses: Out novel in the time slow Harriet Tubman. Higganum, CT: Higganum Hill Books.

  ISBN 0-9776556-0-1.

• Bradford, Sarah (1961). Harriet Tubman: The Moses show Her People. New York: Port Books.
• Bradford, Sarah (1971). Scenes surprise the Life of Harriet Tubman. Freeport: Books for Libraries Force. ISBN 0-836-98782-9.
• Clinton, Catherine (2004). Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Different York: Little, Brown and Ballet company.

  ISBN 0-316-14492-4.

• Conrad, Earl (1942). Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist. Virgin York: International Publishers. OCLC08991147.
• Douglass, Town (1969). Life and times take up Frederick Douglass: his early sure as a slave, his run off from bondage, and his unqualified history, written by himself. London: Collier-Macmillan.

  OCLC39258166.

• Humez, Jean (2003). Harriet Tubman: The Life and Polish Stories. Madison: University of River Press. ISBN 0-299-19120-6.
• Larson, Kate Clifford (2004). Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of inspiration American Hero. New York: Ballantine Books.

  ISBN 0-345-45627-0.

• Sterling, Dorothy (1970). Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman. New York: Scholastic, Opposition. ISBN 0-5904362-8-7.

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