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Harriet Tubman was an african american women who once was a slave. She got her freedom in Canada from escaping and running away. Instead of just keeping her freedom she ran back and forth across the border to save other slaves. She put together the Underground Railroad and saved hundreds of slaves. Also During the Civil War she also became a spy and a nurse.

__Early Life__
 Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. Then her name was Araminta Ross though. She then became a house servant  to her master at age 6. She was sent to work in the fields as a teenager. She did get a bad injury as a teenager and never recovered from the injury. What happened was the overseer saw a slave not working and Harriet stepped in front of the slave. The overseer picked up a 2 pound weight and threw it and meant to hit the other slave but it hit Araminta in the head. This gave her spells where she would just fall into a deep sleep at random times. She got married in 1844 to John Tubman. She then changed her last name to his last name and changed her first name to Harriet after her mother. In 1849 she thought her master was going to sell her so she ran away. She got to freedom but she kept coming back and forth across the line to save more slaves.




__Her First Escape __
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The first time she escaped was in 1849. She was saved by a neighbor who was white and an abolitionist. This neighbor gave Harriet one note and two names on it. It also told her where the first house was on her way to freedom. When she got to the first house she was instructed to get into a wagon and from there taken to the next house. Their she got directions to all the safe houses and all the people who would help her the rest of the way.<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> She started and then hitched a ride with an abolitionist couple and she was dropped off in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia she got a job to help get some mor<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">e slaves to freedom. She also met William Still who was in charge of a very busy safe house.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Underground Railroad **__
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">She learned about the Underground Railroad from Still and some other members. In 1850 she went for the first time back to the South and freed slaves. She sent a letter to her sister's oldest son to go and board a boat in Cambridge. Which would go to Bodkin's Bay where Harriet would meet them and lead them th<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">e rest of the way. Then in September she was appointed to be a conducter of the Underground Railroad. She knew all the rout<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">es you could take and she had to promise to keep the Underground Railroad a secret. When the U.S passed the __1850 Fugitive Slave Act__, Harriet now had to bring all the slaves to Canada instead of the Northern States. She went back and forth between the U.S and Canada many times and saved hundreds of slaves.

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Civil War Helper __
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">During the Civil War she worked as a nurse, a cook, and a spy. She was a very good spy because she had been a conducter on the Underground Railroad and knew the land very well. As a spy she went on some gun boat raids because she had some inside information. As a doctor, she knew she could help all the<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> sick people if she had the right herbs and roots. She found th e right herbs and roots and she boiled it and gave it to a man and he got better. She saved many people doing this and it also helped that she knew about the folk remedies from living in Maryland.

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After the Civil War ended, in 1869, she returned to her home in Auburn. In Auburn she married Nelson Davis and they were married for 19 years. In 1873 she brought a house that was 7 acres. She was able to buy this plot because of Sarah Bradford, the author, gave her $1,200 for the sale proceeds of her book. Right before Harriet died she gave her home for the elderly to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. She died on March 10, 1913. Harriet was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery with military rights.

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__References__
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Garraty, John A. __The Story of America__. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1994

"Harriet Tubman". __americaslibrary.gov.__<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">America's Library. 1 March 2009 http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "Harriet Tubman". __pbs.org.__ PBS. 3 March 2009 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html "Harriet Ross Tubman". __math.buffalo.edu.__ 29 March 2009 http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html

"Harriet Tubman". __civilwarhome.com__. 29 March 2009 http://americancivilwar.com/women/harriet_tubman.html