1. HARRIET TUBMAN
&
THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
BY
VENITA R. WILLIAMS

2. THE WOMAN CALLED “MOSES”
 Araminta Harriet Ross
 Born on 1819 or 1820 in Dorchester
County, Maryland
 In 1844, she married John Tubman, a free
black man
 In 1849, she escapes to the north
 In 1850, Harriet Tubman starts rescuing
slaves via the Underground Railroad

3. MOSES CONT…..
 In 1958 she buy’s a farm
near Auburn, N.Y.
 She also established the
Harriet Tubman home for
the elderly
 She died on March 10,
1913
 She was either 93 or 94
years old when she died.

4. LIFE AS A FUGITIVE
 Fearing that she would be sold deeper in the
south, Harriet ran away.
 Once she got to the north she decided to help
the abolitionist to end slavery.
 She also became the conductor of the
Underground Railroad.
 She made 19 rescue trips in over 10 years,
rescuing over 300 slaves from the southern
states, including her 70 year old parents.

5. FUGITIVE CONT….
 She also helped John Brown recruit
soldiers for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in
1859.
 She also worked as a nurse, a scout, and
a spy for the Union Army during the U. S.
Civil War.

6. How She Succeeded
 Harriet used disguises such as  She constantly changed
she posed as a deranged old her route and her method
man, or as an old woman, to
avoid suspicion when traveling of operation.
in slaves states.
 She carried sleeping powder
to stop babies from crying.
 She always carried a pistol to
prevent her charges from
backing out once the journey
to freedom had begun.

7. SUCCESS CONT….
 The Spiritual “Go Down Moses” was often
used as a signal to let slaves know that
she was ready to make another trip.
 Harriet had a bounty totaling $40,000 on
her.
 She once said “On my Underground
Railroad, I never ran my train off the track,
and I never lost a passenger.”

8. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
 This was a movement to help escaped slaves
make their way from the slave-owning southern
states up through the northern states, and
eventually into Canada.
 This was accomplished by secretly transporting
slaves from one safe house to another, steadily
moving north until freedom was secured.

9. MAP OF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD

10. AREAS COVERED
 The Underground Railroad stretched from
Kentucky and Virginia across Ohio &
Indiana.
 In the Northerly direction, it stretched from
Maryland, across Pennsylvania & into
New York & through New England
 The Underground Railroad helped over ~
100,000 slaves escape.

11. ROCHESTER CITY & AIDS FOR
FUGITIVE SLAVES
 Rochester city and  Members of the Underground
surrounding area played Railroad that aided fugitive
slaves were prominent citizens
a leading role in the with liberal minded views,
Underground Railroad Quakers, and ex-slaves, such
movement, because it as Harriet Tubman, who
was conveniently located worked to liberate those who
on the Canadian border. where not free.
 These people often put
 Became the last stop for lanterns in the window as a
fugitive slaves. signal to let slaves no that, that
place was a safe-house.

12. SAFE-HOUSE

13. SIGNIFICANT FIGURES & SAFE-
HOUSES
 Harriet Tubman  The Henry Quinby farm
 James Fairfield—pretended to  David H. Richardson’s farm
be a slave trader.  The Warrant farm in Brighton
 Thomas Garrett-A Quaker  The old Frederick Douglass
business man who helped home near Highland Park
over 2700 slaves.  A cluster of houses where
 William Still-former slave who numerous Quakers lived. That
purchase his own freedom & is now the area where the war
then became an abolitionists Memorial building is.
 Frederick Douglass-African  Harvey Humphrey estate.
American abolitionist  *All these stations are located
 John Parker-Son of a white in Rochester.
businessman and a slave;
helped over 400 slaves.