Timeline by Austin Manning

1819 -1820

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Harriet was born into and grew up in slavery with 8 brothers and sisters in Dorchester county.

1832-1833

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When she was thirteen years old she suffered a traumatic head injury which almost killed her when a two pound weight missed its intended target and hit poor Harriet.

1844

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In 1844 at the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American who did not share her dream. Since she was a slave, she knew there could be a chance that she could be sold and her marriage would be split apart.

1849

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During her escape to Philadelphia in 1849 Harriet was given a piece of paper by a white abolitionist neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination.

1850

20405_57 — 2024-05-14 17:21:00 UTC

With the assistance of William Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned about the workings of The Underground Railroad.In 1850, Harriet helped her first slaves escape to the North.

1825-1826

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At age six, Araminta was old enough to be considered able to work. Her Master Lent her to a couple who first put her to work weaving she was beaten frequently. Araminta caught the measles while doing this work.

1850

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In September of the same year, Harriet was made an official "conductor" of the UGRR. This meant that she knew all the routes to free territory and she had to take an oath of silence so the secret of the Underground Railroad would be kept secret.

1851

20405_57 — 2024-05-15 16:37:23 UTC

Harriet's third trip was in September 1851. Harriet went to get her husband, John, but he had remarried and did not want to leave. So she went back up North. Harriet went to Garret's house and found there were more "passengers" to rescue than anticipated.

1861

20405_57 — 2024-05-15 17:00:30 UTC

Tubman returned to the U.S. from living in Canada in 1861. The Civil War had begun and was enlisting all men as soldiers and any women who wanted to join as cooks and nurses. Tubman enlisted into the Union army as a "contraband" nurse in a hospital in Hilton Head, South Carolina and for a time serving at Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis would later be imprisoned.

1869

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After the war, Harriet returned home to Auburn. In 1869, she married Nelson Davis and together they shared a calm, peaceful 19 year marriage until he died.

1913

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Before she died on March 10, 1913, she gave her home for the elderly to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Tubman was buried with military rites in Fort Hill Cemetery, a short drive from the home.