Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. She was the sixth of eleven children. She was born in a very small one-room log hut that was located behind her family's owner's house. The hut had a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture, kind of like a sod all but the logs. She wasn't born Harriet Tubman, she was born Araminta Ross, (Minta or Minty for short). Her parents said they would have Minta as her pet name, until she got older. Her Mother's name was Harriet Green also known as Old Rit and her father's name was Benjamin Ross. Both her mother and father were of course slaves. So they had to have a master whose name was Edward Brodas. Neither Minta's mother nor her father could read or write, but we all know that the needed some kind of way to tell the days apart. They measured days by sun up 5:00a.m or 6:00a.m. Sun high 12:00a.m. And sundown 7:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. They measured months by seasons Seedtime/spring, Cotton Blossom time / summer, Harvest/Fall and Christmas/Christmas. And the years were determined by something big that happened that year like one year might have been the year of the big storm, or the big drought, the old master died, the new master wa
A safe house was a house that people that were against slavery lived in. And on the third trip she went to get her husband John, only to find that he was with another woman. Harriet returned over and over again, eventually, she found a way to make her trips easier and more successful. And 25 years later at the age of 93 Harriet Araminta Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913. No one really cared about slaves; they didn't care what happen to them. Although Harriet had a ruff childhood she worked hard to make . The hit put her in a coma and it took months for her to recover. She said, "Now you know, I never had anything good, any sweet, no sugar, and that sugar right by me did look so nice. Going from safe house to safe house became known as the Underground Railroad. She still went on to save more and more slaves. Minta ran away and hid out with the pigs. At the age of 24, Minty married a free black man named John Tubman. Around that time Minty changed her name to Harriet in fear of being sold away to a different plantation. In 1867 her e-husband John Tubman died.
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