Harriet Tubman, a black woman who grew up like a neglected weed, bloomed into a strong, tall flower. According to the Background Essay, Araminta Ross was born into slavery in 1822 in Bucktown, Maryland. Later in life, Araminta Ross changed her name to Harriet Tubman in 1844 after she married a free black man named John Tubman. Araminta took her mother’s first name, Harriet, and her husband’s last name, Tubman. Tubman escaped slavery after her master died in 1849. After Tubman escaped, she had many jobs including being an Underground Railroad conductor, a spy, a nurse, and a caregiver. Harriet Tubman died at the age of 91 in Auburn, New York in 1913. Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievement was her time as an Underground Railroad conductor because she traveled hundreds of miles…show more content… According to Document A, Tubman traveled around 675 miles on each trip from Bucktown to St. Catharines on foot. Tubman traveled on foot during the winter at nighttime and picked up the escaping slaves through 3rd party locations on Saturday nights. She would then drop them off in the Free States or Canada (Document B). Tubman shows how dedicated she is to saving slaves as she travels on foot for hundreds of miles, which can cause pain in the foot for traveling long distances every night. She did most of her traveling in the winter. Tubman also traveled during the night and rested by day, which dragged out the time it took to get to the 3rd party location and the drop-off point, even with the longer nights and shorter days during winter. When she reached the 3rd party location, she had to wait until Saturday night to start as slaves have breaks on Sunday and won’t be seen by their masters until Monday morning. This gave Tubman and the escaping slaves some time to travel before the slaves’ masters noticed they were gone. Though Harriet Tubman didn’t just make one trip, she made
