who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 1

Born a slave she was one of the "conductors" on the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape from their master's to the North in the days prior to the United State's Civil War.
In all she is believed to have conducted approximately 300 persons to freedom in the North. Tubman was closely associated with Abolitionist John Brown, and was well acquainted with the other Upstate abolitionists.

Answer 2

Harriet Tubman was a black woman who led some Southern slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 1800's.

Answer 3

Harriet Tubman was a former save who helped relocate over 700 escaped slaves north to freedom in Canada. She lived from 1820 to 1913.

Answer 4

Harriet Tubman was the founder of the Underground Railroad,which lead many Africans out of slavery in the Pre-Civil War period

Answer 5

Harriet Tubman (c. 1822–March 10, 1913), also known as "Moses of Her People," was an African-American abolitionist. An escaped slave, she made approximately 20 voyages to rescue about 300 enslaved friends and family to freedom in Canada. During her lifetime she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook. As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, and fundraiser.

Answer 6

She was an American abolitionist. She escaped from slavery and until the Civil War she was active on the slave escape route, a number of safe-houses called the 'underground railroad' making a number of dangerous journeys into the South and leading over 300 people to freedom.

Answer 7

A black woman who helped black slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.

Answer 8

Born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, she was the fifth of 11 children, five boys and six girls, of Ben and Harriet Greene Ross. She rarely lived with her owner, Edward Brodess, but from the age of six was frequently hired out to other masters. She endured inhumane treatment from some masters, bearing the scars of beatings until the day she died at age 91. As a young teen she was nearly killed by a severe blow to her head from a dry goods store weight, thrown by an overseer who was attempting to capture another runaway slave. As a result of the severe blow, she suffered intermittent epileptic seizures for the rest of her life. During this period Edward Brodess sold three of Harriet's sisters, Linah, Soph, and Mariah Ritty.

When she was a young adult, she took the name Harriet, possibly in honor of her mother. Around 1844, she married John Tubman, a free black man. When she ran away from Maryland, he did not join her, but rather continued his free life in Dorchester County without her. John Tubman was killed during a roadside argument near Cambridge, Maryland in 1867.

Edward Brodess died in early March 1849, leaving behind his wife, Eliza Ann Brodess, and eight children. To pay her dead husband's mounting debts and to save her small farm from seizure, Eliza decided to sell some of the family's slaves. Fearing sale into the Deep South, Tubman took her emancipation into her own hands. Sometime in the fall of 1849 she escaped northward, leaving behind her free husband who did not want to follow. Two of her brothers, who were also going to be sold down south, began the journey with her, but then decided to turn back. Tubman went on alone. On the way she was assisted by members of the Abolitionist movement, both black and white, who were instrumental in maintaining the Underground Railroad.

Called "Moses" by those she helped escape on the Underground Railroad, Tubman made many trips to Maryland to help other slaves escape. According to her estimates and those of her close associates, Tubman personally guided about 70 slaves to freedom in about 13 expeditions and gave instructions to another 70 who found their way to freedom independently. She was never captured and, in her own words, "never lost a passenger." Her owner, Eliza Brodess, posted a $100 reward for her return, but no one ever knew that it was Harriet Tubman who was responsible for spiriting away so many slaves from her old neighborhood in Maryland.

Tubman worked as a spy for the North during the American Civil War. Tubman was the first American woman to plan and lead a military operation, the raid at Combahee Ferry, in 1863. This raid freed over 750 slaves.

After the American Civil War, it was reported that there had been a $40,000 reward for Tubman's capture. This was a myth to further dramatize Harriet's greatness in the post-war period. She was successful in bringing away her parents and her four brothers — Ben, Robert, Henry, and Moses — but failed to rescue her sister Rachel, and Rachel's two children, Ben and Angerine. Rachel died in 1859 before Harriet could rescue her.

Answer 9

A African American woman who helped blacks escape to the North

Answer 10

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