Harriet Tubman timeline by Megan-taylor English

1819 Birth

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Araminta Ross (Harriet Tubman) was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was raised under harsh conditions, andsubjected to whippings even as a small child.

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At age six, Araminta (Harriet) was old enough to be considered able to work. She did not work in the fields though. Edward Brodas, her master, lent her to a couple who first put her to work weaving she was beaten frequently. When she slacked off at this job the couple gave her the duty of checking muskrat traps.

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When she turned eleven, she started wearing a bright cotton bandana around her head indicating she was no longer a child. She was also no longer known by Araminta. Now she would be called Harriet, after her mother. At the age of 12 Harriet Ross was seriously injured by a blow to the head.

1844 Marriage

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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 Escape

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Since Harriet was a slave, she knew there could be a chance that she could be sold and her marriage would be split apart. Her goal to achieve freedom was too large for her to give up though. So in 1849 she left her husband and escaped to Philadelphia in 1849.

1850 Conductor

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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. She also made a second trip to the South to rescue her brother James and other friends.

1851 Canada

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Harriet's third trip was in September 1851. She 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 runaways to rescue than anticipated.

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Harriet Tubman's career in the Railroad was ending by December 1860. She made her last rescue trip to Maryland, bringing seven people to Canada. In the ten years she worked as a conductor on the Railroad, Harriet managed to rescue over 300 people. She had made 19 trips and never lost a passenger on the way.

1861 Civil War

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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 nurse in a hospital in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

1869 Second marriage

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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 Death

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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. A year after her death, Auburn declared a one-day memorial to its anti-slavery hero.