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- Harriet was born to a slave family in Maryland. Tubman’s life was full of hardship. Physical violence was part of her day to day life.
- When she was a child a overseer accidentally threw a two pound weight at her head. This cause Tubman to have seizures, severe headaches and narcoleptic episodes for the rest of her life
- Harriets nickname was Moses because the amount of people she helped escape slavery with in the tunnels. She would travel from Maryland to Philadelphia in the tunnels.
- When the fugitive slave law passed Tubman had to bring slaves up north to Canada so they wouldn’t be captured in the free states.
- During the American civil war Tubman was a chef and a nurse and quickly became an armed scout and spy. She was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war and liberated more than 700 slaves.
- In 1903 she donated a parcel of her land to the African methodist episopal church in auburn. The Harriet Tubman home for the aged opened on the site in 1908. On March 10 1913 Tubman died of pneumonia. She was buried with military honours.
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