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1. Harriet Tubman By: Grace Okyereh

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS Who is she? 01 Early LIfe 02 Abolition Work 03 Death 04

3. WHO IS SHE? 01

4. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1820, Dorchester county, Maryland. She was one of the 10 children of Harriet and Ben Ross She was an American woman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom using the route of the Underground Railroad. INTRODUCTION

5. EARLY LIFE 02

6. Born into slavery, Araminta Ross later changed her name to her mother’s first name, Harriet At five she was first hired out to work, serving as a nursemaid and later as a cook, and a woodcutter. When she was 12 years old, she reportedly refused to help her master punish another enslaved person, and she suffered a severe head injury when he threw an iron weight that struck her; she suffered seizures for the rest of her life. In 1844 she married John Tubman, a free Black man.

7. 03 Abolition Work

8. 1850 Her Escape.

9. In 1849, she was about to be sold, Tubman fled to Philadelphia, leaving behind her husband, parents, and siblings, and successfully made it to an Anti-Slavery Camp. In December 1850 she made her way to Baltimore, she returned to find out that her husband had remarried and was expecting. So she led her niece Kessiah Jolley and her niece’s two children, James Alfred and Araminta , to freedom. over the next decade, she freed about 70 fugitive enslaved people along the Underground Railroad to Canada. it was long held that Tubman had made about 19 journeys into Maryland and guided over 300 slaves free.

10. If anyone decided to turn back—thereby endangering the mission—she reportedly threatened them with a gun and said, “You’ll be free or die.” Tubman became known as the “Moses of her people.” It has been said that she never lost a fugitive she was leading to freedom.

11. DURING/AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 04

12. From 1862 to 1865 she served as a scout, as well as nurse and laundress, for Union forces in  South Carolina  during the  Civil War .  Following the Civil War Tubman settled in Auburn and began taking in orphans and older adults, a practice that eventuated in the Harriet Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Niggas. Tubman was a patient of the home from 1911 until her death in 1913, staying in a building known as John Brown Hall .

13. WOW! Her final words were: “I go to prepare a place for you”

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