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Harriet Tubman: Emancipation Maryland
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Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. Her father was named Benjamin Ross. Her mother's name was Harriet Green. She was the sixth of eleven kids. Harriet was separated from her family when she was very young.
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One of the most remarkable abolitionists, Harriet Tubman, was born in Dorchester County , Maryland in the early 1820's. She was born to Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross, who were not permitted to marry because of laws prohibiting the marriage of slaves.
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In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold (along with her two children, six-year-old James Alfred, and baby Araminta) in Cambridge, Maryland. Horrified at the prospect of having her family broken further apart, Tubman did something very few slaves ever did: she voluntarily returned to the land of her enslavement. She went to Baltimore, where her brother-in-law Tom Tubman hid her until the time of the sale. Kessiah's husband, a free black man named John Bowley, made the winning bid for his wife. Then, while he pretended to make arrangements to pay, Kessiah and her children absconded to a nearby safe house. When night fell, Bowley ferried the family on a log canoe sixty miles (one hundred kilometers) to Baltimore.
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Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. At age five or six, she began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. While she was still in her early teens, she suffered an injury that would follow her for the rest of her life. Always ready to stand up for someone else, Tubman blocked a doorway to protect another field hand from an angry overseer. The overseer picked up and threw a two-pound weight at the field hand.
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Along the journey, her two brothers returned to Maryland, but Harriet continued and arrived in Philadelphia, changed her name to Harriet, and worked for about a year to earn money. She then left Philadelphia and returned to Maryland. Once in Maryland she disguised herself as a man in an attempt to find her husband to bring him back north with her. Upon finding her husband, she found that he had married another. Devastated by this news, she set her mind and determination devoting her life to freeing slaves.
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Tubman was born to Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820 or 1821. As a baby, she was called Araminta, but she later changed her name to Harriet.
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