Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

By: Andrea Aquilani, Allison Klenken, and Rebecca Eslick

"Conductor" of Underground Railroad

Tubman made 19 trips to lead slaves from the South to freedom.

She rescued her brother and sister.

Civil War

She later went back for her husband, but he found a new wife.

Runaway Slave

Rescued over 300 slaves

Harriet Tubman ran away to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1849 when she heard she was going to be sold.

Leader in Abolitionist Movement

Harriet Tubman never lost a slave trying to get to freedom.

Tubman served as a spy for the Union, as well as a nurse and cook, during the Civil War.

Born: 1819

Died: 1913

Harriet Tubman's real name is Araminta Ross

Resources

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman

http://www.historynet.com/harriet-tubman

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

After the Civil War, Harriet Tubman settled in Auburn, New York where she lived with her parents and began working for racial justice and women’s right. She believed these two were closely linked together and she ended up opening a house for aged and poor African Americans in 1908.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_subj.html