Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross, 1820. She was one out of 11 children. Her parents were  Harriet and Benjamin Ross born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. Ross had to stay awake all night so that the baby wouldn't cry and wake the mother. If Ross fell asleep, the baby's mother whipped her. From a very young age, Ross was determined to gain her freedom. 

1844, she married John Tubman. She picked up his last name and changed her first name to her mother's name Harriet. 1849, Harriet worried that she and the other slaves on the plantation were going to be sold. Tubman decided to run away. Her husband refused to go. Her brothers first came along but got scared and went back. Without anybody, Harriet went alone to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, she got work as a house hold servant and saved the money to help other slaves get their freedom, using the Underground Railroad.

During the Civil War, Harriet became a nurse, spy and a cook. She knew the land well because of her experience at the Undergroud Railroad. She also healed the sick while being a nurse.

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