Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. She escaped in 1849 and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, making over 13 missions to rescue more than 70 slaves. The Underground Railroad was a secret network that used safe houses and routes to help slaves escape to free states and Canada. Tubman later worked as a scout and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War and continued supporting the cause of abolition and women's suffrage for the rest of her life until her death in 1913 at around 93 years old.

1. Harriet Tubman

2. Early Life/ ChildhoodHarriet Tubaman was born in the year 1820. The exact date is not known because As with many slaves in the United States, neither the exact year nor place of her birth was recorded. As a child she grow up in Maryland. Harriet. She had slave parents as a child. Her real mom was send to the “ Big House”. So Harriet had the responsibility on her sholders to take care of her younger brother and a baby. At early age she got beaten many of her master and got various injuries that affected her. Tubman also worked as a child at the home of a planter named James Cook.

3. FamilyModesty (grandmother)

4. Linah(sister)

5. Mariah Ritty (sister)

6. Soph(sister)

7. Robert (brother)

8. Ben (brother)

9. Rachel (sister)

10. Henry (brother)

11. Moses (brother)MarriageIn 1844 at the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American who did not share her dream. Since she was a slave, she knew there could be a chance that she could be sold and her marriage would be split apart. Harriet dreamed of traveling north. There, she would be free and would not have to worry about having her marriage split up by the slave trade. But, John did not want her to go north. He said he was fine where he was and that there was no reason for moving north. She said she would go by herself. He replied with questions like "When it's nighttime, how will you know which way is north?" and "What will you eat?" He told her that if she ran off, he would tell her master. She did not believe him until she saw his face and then she knew he meant it. Her goal to achieve freedom was too large for her to give up though. So in 1849 she left her husband and escaped to Philadelphia in 1849Who was she?