Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

By J'Taime Weaver

Background history

Work background

Birth of Harriet Tubman

Her parents

1831

- Nat Turner’s rebellion sends waves throughout the south

-The tension between free and enslaved African American’s grows bigger

1836–1842

- Minty is hired out to John T. Stewart of Madison.

- works as a domestic, a field hand, a dock- worker, and lumberjack.

- Her work/closeness to her father provide her the skills she would later need working on the Underground Railroad.

-1840

- Minty leaves to go to another plantation with some of her siblings

- 1822

- Araminta “Minty” Ross, Harriet Tubman

- was most likely born in February or March

- born on Thompson Plantation where her parents were both enslaved on.

1785-1790

- the time period when her parents were probably born.

- father’s name is Ben Ross

- her mother’s name is Harriet “Rit” Green

- They were born in Dorchester County, Maryland

- Both are enslaved, but by different masters.

Marriage

Runs away for the first time

1849:

-Edward Brodess dies in March

-leaving debt

-Harriet Tubman runs away twice in the fall of 1849

-She successfully reaches freedom in Philadelphia on her second try.

-Eliza Brodess posts a $100 reward for Tubman’s return.

Rescue Trips

1861

-The Civil War starts with the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in April.

1862–1865

- Tubman works as a domestic, teacher, scout, and spy for the Union Forces stationed in the Hilton Head district in South Carolina, in Georgia, and in Florida.

1890: Tubman becomes more actively involved in the women’s suffrage movement, attending both black and white suffrage conventions. Tubman applies for a widow’s pension as the wife of Civil War soldier Nelson Davis, and receives $8 per month.

Bibliography

Hobson, Janell. "Harriet Tubman: A Legacy Of Resistance." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 12.2 (2014): 1-8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

Larson, Kate Clifford. "Harriet Ross Tubman: Timeline." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 12.2 (2014): 9-27. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

Pappas, Connie. "Harriet Tubman And The Underground Railroad." Library Media Connection 32.3 (2013): 77. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Mar. 2015.

1913: Tubman dies on March 10 and is buried next to her brother, William Henry Stewart, at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York. The New York Times lists her as one of the most important people in the world who died during the year

1855-1860

- Tubman rescues about seventy individuals in approximately thirteen trips

- she gives important instructions to others who can find their own freedom

1857

- Tubman brings her aged parents from Caroline County, Maryland,

-when she learns her father is at risk of arrest for helping slaves run away.

- Case decided, denying blacks rights

1850

- The Fugitive Slave Act is passed. Tubman conducts her first rescue mission by helping her niece, Kessiah Jolley Bowley, and Kessiah’s two children, James Alfred and baby Araminta, escape.

1844

- She marries freeman John Tubman

- she then changes her name to Harriet

-Edward B. hires her to do work and allows her to keep some of her earrings from working.

-Even though he allows her certain privileges, he has sold three of her sisters: Linah, Mariah Ritty, and Soph, which tears their family apart forever.

2000

2005

1995

2010

1990

Minty's scars

"Minty's" young life

Family

1828–1835

-Young Minty is frequently hired out by Brodess to various nearby farmers, some of whom are cruel and negligent

- the scars she requires, she bears for the rest of her life

- 1808

- Ben and Rit’s first child, Linah, is born.

-Over the next twenty-four years, they have eight more children: Mariah Ritty, Soph, Robert, Araminta “Minty,” Ben, Rachel, Henry, and Moses

1834–1836

- Minty is nearly killed after being struck on the head by an iron weight thrown by an angry overseer, at the Bucktown crossroads.

- She suffers from seizures and debilitating headaches from this head injury for the rest of her life. Her scar is also used as a way to try and identify her in the future