Have you ever wondered about enslaved people? Have they ever tried to escape? Well, Harriet Tubman is a perfect example. Harriet Tubman was an African American born into slavery. Harriet was also known as Moses. She was born in March 1822. By the age of six, she was working. She got married in 1844 when she was 22 years old. “Harriet’s original name was Araminta Ross, (likely after her mom).”
Harriet Tubman did many things in her lifetime. She is most famous for freeing herself and eleven other slaves. Harriet and the slaves traveled from Maryland to Canada together and helped free around three hundred slaves. Harriet was one of the most famous people from the Underground Railroad. She led around 300 …show more content…
Every summer, Harriet was also “the first woman to do both plans and lead a military raid” Around this time, she found her second husband. Nelson Davis: “Tubbman had made the perilous trip to slave country 19 times by 1860. During the rival war, Harriet worked for the union as a cook, a nurse, and a spy.” She settled in New York with her husband Nelson. She died in 1913 from pneumonia and was buried in Front Hill Cemetery in Auburn. Poison is an infection that inflames air sacs in one or both lungs, which may fill with fluid. Her story is being told around the