What some facts about Harriet Tubman?

Answer 1

• Harriet Tubman is the conductor of the under ground railroad.
• She rescued more then 300 slaves.
• Harriet Tubman worked for women rightsuffrage.
• She was born on 1820 or 1821, the exact date isn't sure because she was slave , no one kept their birth dates.
• She died because ofPneumonia ( lung infection)

Harriet Tubman's second husband was 22 years younger than her. On one of her trips to the south she brought back a young girl named Margaret who may have been her daughter though no real evidence proves that. People do say that they looked very alike and shared a very strong bond.
Facts on Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Tubman, an African American, was born to parents Harriet Green and Ben Moss in Dorchester, Maryland. It is interesting to know that there exists no proof about her exact year of birth. She is believed to have been born in 1819, 1820 or 1825.
• At the early age of five or six, her master rented her to Miss Susan. Her master used to beat her badly. She protected herself from the beating by wrapping her self in multiple layers of clothes.
• At the age of twelve, she had to be operated. She suffered from a severe head injury that was the result of a slave's overseer throwing a two-pound weight at her. After this accident, she started getting dreams. She strongly believed her dreams to be indications from God. She suffered from intermittent periods of unconsciousness following her brain injury. Harriet had claimed to be aware of her surroundings when she seemed unconscious to everyone around.
• In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman. He was a free black man.
• In 1849, Harriet's master tried to sell her. Harriet was against this decision. She had later said that she had prayed for her master's death at that time and that God had listened to her. She fled from her master's house soon after his death.
• Tubman performed a great feat of returning to enslavement when she came to know that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold.
• In the American civil war of 1961, Tubman and her supporters saw a Union victory. After this accomplishment, Tubman joined a group of the abolitionists of Boston and Philadelphia. She worked for the Union. She launched an armed attack in the Civil war, later in 1863. She was the first woman to lead an armed attack in that war.
• Once while traveling to New York in a train, The Whites in the train threw Harriet into a smoke car. The Civil war had actually ended by then. But it was clear from this incident that the Whites' approach of looking towards the Blacks had hardly changed.
• Two volumes of the biography of Harriet Tubman were published. Bradford, one of Harriet's admirers released the first volume while the second volume came up by the name, 'Harriet, the Moses of her people', in 1886.
• Harriet Tubman was awarded a pension of twenty dollars in 1889. Ironically it was not for her services to humanity. It was rather because she was Mr. Davis's widow.
• When a brain surgery had to be conducted on Harriet, she had to be given anesthesia. But she refused to be given an anesthesia. Instead she chewed a bullet during her surgery. She had seen the Civil war soldiers do this when their limbs had to be amputated.
• Harriet Tubman passed away on March 10, 1913. She was entombed at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn. The rituals of her burial were performed with military honors.
• Many important institutes across the US have been named after Harriet. She is one of the most notable figures in the history. A survey at the end of the twentieth century revealed that she is the third most famous individual of American history.

Harriet Tubman dedicated a lifetime to the establishment of equality. She was a source of inspiration for many. Her relentless struggle for equality and civil rights was the one of its kind. Born in a slave family, and after going through all the torture, she emerged instrumental in guiding the Blacks towards liberty.

Harriet Tubman's traits were that she was brave, smart, courageous, religious, heroic, and kind person.she led the slaves in Maryland out of slavery and into freedom, about 500 slaves. she was born in 1820, Dorchester country, Maryland. died march 10th 1913 Auburn New York age 91. she was best known as the best conductor in the ''Underground Railroad''. Married John Tubman, a free slave in 1844, but remained a slave herself until her escape in 1849. She died from pnuemonia, in a nursing home. she help free black slaves from the whites, and so many blacks were thankful to her. also it was wrong for the whites to ''owns'' black, which is why they created laws and rights for that kind of thing.