Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1980. Her original name was not Harriet, it was Araminta Greene. Harriet was a slave. She had many jobs such as a domestic servant, field hand and also as a woodcutter. Harriet had many wounds from being a slave. One of those wounds she got from an iron, which her overseer threw at her when Harriet tried to help a slave escape.
After years of slavery, Harriet married John Tubman, who was a former slave. During that time rumors were being spread that slaves were being sold out of state. Harriet fled to Philadelphia and then to Ontario. She later returned to Maryland to help her sister and her sister's children escape to freedom. After that, Harriet returned to help more of her relatives escape from slavery. Harriet continued to help slaves escape on a route called The Underground Railroad. She made over 19 trips in 10 years and helped over 300 people escape to Canada. Harriet got a lot of admiration from slaves.
But even though the slaves admired her, slave owners didn't. They offered 40,000 for her dead or alive. But Harriet escaped all of those slave owners and stayed at Saint Catherines with other former slaves.
Harriet had many highlights in her life. Besides helping slaves escape she also worked in the Civil War doing many different things. After that she opened a home for elderly blacks called The Harriet Tubman home for Indigent Aged Negroes. Even after she died, which was March 10, 1913 of pneumonia, the city of Auburn kept the house going and installed a plaque in her honor.
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