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 was born or in this case the year Minta was born.
             As soon as Minta was about five or six years old, she began to work as a house servant. Since Minta was a slave there was a good chance she could be separated from her family, since slaves were sold back then. No one really cared about slaves; they didn't care what happen to them. Slaves would be sold, beaten, and ridiculed just because they were a different color than everyone else.
             As a matter a fact Minta was beaten all the time by her masters. One time, Minta saw a bowl filled with lumps of sugar and decided to take one. Minta's mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasing her with a whip. Minta ran away
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