Harriet Tubman

• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

• Quakers almost as good as colored.... They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

• We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

• I grew up like a neglected weed -- ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

• I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

arceus789 here. just adding some on.

"every great dream starts with a dreamer."

"never wound a snake- kill it."

"if i could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, i could have rescued thousands more."

• 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, 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'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.

Harriet Tubman had no education and was illiterate throughout her life. Slave owners did not want their slaves to know how to read or write.

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Although Harriet Tubman was illiterate throughout her life and had no formal education, isn't it ironic that many schools are named after her? She was poor and was showed very little respect by people who were "educated" and she did more, by far, to help black people than most of her contemporaries. But Harriet did get an education from her dad. her dad taught a lot about the wild. Harriet Tubman Didn't get an education because she wasn't aloud to go to school...Slaves weren't aloud to go to school.