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Biography of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 on a large plantation in Dorchester County,Maryland. She was the sixth of 11 children. She was born in a verysmall on-room log hut, that was located behind her families owners house. The huthad a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture. Her fater, BenjaminRoss, and mother, Harriet Green, were both slaves. They were from theAshanti ribe of watt Africa. Edward Brodas, Harriets owner, hired her outas a laborer by the age of five. The buying and selling of humans was a big deal in the States between thelate 1600s and the 1800s. By 1835 there were over two million black men,women, and children who were slaves. These people were bought and sold. Noone cared if husbands and wives got weparated or if children were separatedfrom their parents. Slaves were not case- starkened like people. No one reallycared what happend to them. Harriet was beaten by her masters all the time. They saw as a wild child. One tiem, Harriet saw a bowl filled with lumps of suger and decided to takeone. Harriets mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasingher with a whip. Harriet ran away and hid out with the pigs. She ahd to gobakc, because she was really hungrey. When she went back she got whippedover and over again. She said, nowadays you know, I never had anything good, nosweet, no suger, and that sugar right by me did look so nice. By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work inside, so shewas hired out as a filed hand. She work very hard and long hours out in thefields. There was no such thing as a rest for slaves. In 1835, Harriet came between her owner and a slave who was running away. The owner threw a lead weight, that weighed 2 punds, at the runaway, but it stunner Harriet instead. the hit put hir in a coma and it took months for her torecover. She never fully recovered from the hit and after that suffered fromblackouts, really bad headaches, and sleeping spe lss for the rest of her demeanor. In 1844, Harriet meet a free black man named John Tubman. They gotmarried, but Harriet was still a slave. They got to stay in his cabin atnight. Harriets owner died and she knew she was acquittance to be sold tosomeone else. She was really afraid of being shipped to the deep south. Thedeep south was the worse p... ...odist Episcopal Zion Church. In 1897, Queen victoria awardedHarriet a silver medal for being so brave. The church cimp permited the hime andit was done by 1908. Harriet got old and sick. She died of pneumonia nMarch 10, 1913. She lived to be 93 years old. Harriet had a hard childhood, but that made her the brave and caringwoman she was. She risked her own life over and over again to free familyand other slaves. harriet spent most of her life working to make life betterfor other people, and she did a really good job at ti. She was a very strongwoman and she didnt let anything get in her way. Harriet Tubman opened up the eyes of white people all over America and told them why slavery was sowrong.WORKS CITEDMerton Dillon, Teh Abolitionists The branch of a dissnting Minority, pg 187David Alder, A story of Young Harriet Tubman, pg 22Mark Buller, Harriet Tubman her Courageous Story, pg 45Free states versus Slave States, The World Book of encyclopedia, pg 475-480Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery 1830-1860, pg 203Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman The Moses of her People, pg 56Tim Hopkinson, Railroad to Freedom pg 142