Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who lived from 1820 to 1913 in Auburn, New York. She risked her life to save slaves from the plantation system. Mrs. Tubman brought slaves to freedom by leading them to the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a system of routes and safe houses created in the United States. It was used by African American slaves to escape into states like, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, because they were free, and Canada. Harriet Tubman was the most famous conductor of this train system. During this time, she was a suffering from narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that causes extreme drowsiness, because of an incident that happened when she was 12 years old. The incident was that she got a two pound weight thrown
