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Harriet Tubman: Freedom
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Harriet Tubman was a remarkable woman who cared more about leading slaves to freedom than about her own safety. The likelihood of her capture and return into slavery increased each trip she made into slave territory. Because of her courage, over 300 slaves gained their freedom and she earned the name “the Moses of her people.”
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Harriet Tubman is one of the greatest leaders of the nineteenth century. She led hundreds of enslaved African-Americans from the southern states towards the north and towards freedom! Here are some facts about Harriet Tubman:
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Harriet Tubman married a free black man when she was 25. However, he would not join her in her desire to escape from freedom. She escaped in 1849 by herself. She first went to a safe house where she was hidden in a wagon and sent on her dangerous trek until she crossed into a free state and was taken to Philadelphia.
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The Harriet Tubman Home preserves the legacy of "The Moses of Her People" in the place where she lived and died in freedom. The site is located on 26 acres of land in Auburn, New York, and is owned and operated by the AME Zion Church. It includes four buildings, two of which were used by Harriet Tubman. Click here to learn more about:
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Harriet Tubman was accustomed to saying to the slaves when she had led them toward freedom, "Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going." When she learned that her husband, John Tubman, had taken another wife in her absence she was devastated, but did not stop returning to get slaves. On one trip out of the South, she brought her own family. When she found her mother unwilling to leave her feather bedtick and her father his broadaxe and other tools, she bundled up bedtick, tools, mother, father and all and landed them in Canada.
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In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman, who was a free man. They lived close to the Brodas plantation in John's cabin. Harriet frequently talked about freedom but John was content with what he had. He thought escaping was too risky when they already had a nice living. It was said that Harriet was unhappy in marriage. She grew impatient with her husband since they did not share the same dream of freedom. One night, without telling anyone, she decided to escape from the plantation in the summer of 1849.
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