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Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross around 1850 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She changed her name to Harriet, after her mother, and then later married a freed slave named John Tubman. From a young age, Harriet Tubman was fiercely independent and courageous and stood up for her fellow slaves. When she was twelve years old, she refused to tie up a slave and an angry overseer threw an iron weight. The weight struck her on the head and for the rest of her life, Tubman was prone to narcolepsy.
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Harriet Tubman was born Araminta "Minty" Ross to slave parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess (and later her son Edward), while Ben was legally owned by Mary's second husband, Anthony Thompson, who ran a large plantation near the Blackwater River in Dorchester County, Maryland.[1] As with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of her birth was recorded, and historians differ as to the best estimate. Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents[2] while Jean Humez says "the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later."[3] Catherine Clinton notes that Tubman herself reported the year of her birth as 1825, while her death certificate lists 1815 and her gravestone lists 1820.[4] In her Civil War widow's pension record, Tubman claimed she was born in 1820, 1822, and 1825, an indication, perhaps, that she had no idea when she was born.
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In Pennsylvania, Harriet Tubman joined the abolitionist cause, working to end slavery. She decided to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of antislavery activists who helped slaves escape from the South. On her first trip in 1850, Tubman brought her own sister and her sister’s two children out of slavery in Maryland. In 1851 she rescued her brother, and in 1857 returned to Maryland to guide her aged parents to freedom.
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After the war, Harriet Tubman returned to her home in Auburn, New York. Since her husband John Tubman died in 1867, she married a former slave and Union soldier, Nelson Davis in 1869. After his death in 1888, Tubman continued to help the sick, poor, and homeless blacks and support their efforts for black voting rights. A $20 per month pension from the United States Government was eventually given to Harriet for her service in the Civil War. She used the money to support these causes. Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913.
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H[A]rriet Tubman (1820-1913) was born into a slave family in Maryland and was hired out as a laborer at the age five. At the age of 15, after helping a runaway slave, Tubman was beaten in the head with a lead weight by an overseer. This severe beating put her in a coma. It took Tubman months to recover and she suffered from blackouts for the rest of her life. determined to help her family and others escape slavery as well. As the best known conductor of the "Underground Railroad", Tubman made at least 19 trips to the South between 1850 and 1860, leading around 300 people to freedom.
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Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. Like many slaves, Tubman was often hired out to work for families that lived near her owner. But unlike many slaves, she was allowed to return to her family between jobs. Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831 spread the ideas of escape throughout the slave community, and Tubman began to dream of freedom. As a child, she aided a runaway slave by blocking the path of the overseer pursuing him. The overseer struck her in the head with a two-pound weight, and Tubman experienced sudden blackouts for the rest of her life as a result.
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