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· In 1849, Tubman decided to run away from her plantation with her two brothers. Her brothers turned back, but Harriet continued and she reached Philadelphia.

· In 1850, Harriet returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. Then she returned to get her brothers and two other men.

· The third time she went, she found slaves and escorted them to the North. She kept going back again and again.

· In 1863, Tubman went with Colonel James Montgomery and about 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in South Carolina. During the raid supplies, livestock and 700 slaves were freed. And not one Union death was reported.

· Harriet worked as a nurse during the Civil war attempting to heal the sick.

· Tubman worked on a medicine that could heal dysentery, a disease associated with terrible diarrhea, and she finally created the cure by boiling water lily roots and other herbs that made a bitter-tasting brew that caused a man to slowly recover.

· Harriet made nineteen trips into the south and escorted over three hundred slaves.

· Tubman got her family out of slavery, including her 70 year old parents.

· She was never captured and never "lost a single passenger"

· Harriet Tubman settled in New York and spent the rest of her long life there. She died in 1913, and on her tombstone it read, "servant of god, Well done".

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