harriet tubman by Avangeline Gonzalez

21984_19 — 2024-05-14 20:19:41 UTC

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist after escaping slavery. Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately enslaved people including her family and friends.

21984_19 — 2024-05-14 20:22:19 UTC

she was also an underground railroad best known conductor and before the civil war repeatedly. during the civil war she became the first woman to lead an armed military raid in June 1863, she was also a union scout,spy,and nurse, she was also a suffragist who fought for women's rights.

21984_19 — 2024-05-14 20:22:48 UTC

she was also an underground rail roads best known conductor and before the civil war she risked her life to lead 70 enslaved people north to new lives of freedom.

21984_19 — 2024-05-14 20:25:26 UTC

in the 1850 fugitive slave act allowed fugitive and freed workers in the north to be captured and enslaved this made her role as an underground railroad conductor much harder and forced her to lead enslaved people further north to Canada, traveling at night, usually in the spring or fall when the days were shorter.

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At 13 years old, Tubman suffered a traumatic injury that almost killed her when a two-pound weight missed its intended target and hit Tubman in the head instead. Though her mother was able to nurse her back to health, Tubman suffered from epilepsy for the rest of her life.

21984_19 — 2024-05-15 20:38:08 UTC

Harriet Tubman rescued 300 people in 19 trips. According to Tubman's own words, and extensive documentation on her rescue missions, we know that she rescued about 70 people—family and friends—during approximately 13 trips to Maryland.

21984_19 — 2024-05-15 20:39:51 UTC

In 1913, at the age of 91, Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in the Home for the Aged & Indigent Negroes. In her final words, Tubman called upon her faith and made reference to John 14:3 in the Bible. She stated, “I go away to prepare a place for you, that where I am you also may be

21984_19 — 2024-05-15 20:40:44 UTC

John Tubman died in 1851 after being shot by a white man named Robert Vincent. The two men had gotten into a roadside quarrel, resulting in John's untimely death. He left behind a widow and four children with the final nail in the coffin being the 'not guilty' verdict, which was passed by an all-white jury.