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Being a slave is horrifying. Physical violence was a daily part of her day. The violence that she had suffered from it would cause permanent injuries. One day Harriet counted on a day that she got lashed five times before breakfast. She carried all of her scars around for the rest of her life. One of Harriet's worst injuries was when she was just a teeneager, she was sent to the store to get some supplies, she bumped into a slave who had left the field without permission. The man’s supervisor demanded that …show more content…
She escaped when her owner passed away in 1849 ( History). She left Maryland with her two brothers Harry and Ben, on September 17, 1849. In Cambridge Democrat offered three hundred dollars for the return for Harriet. Once they had left her brothers had second thoughts and returned to the plantation. After her brothers got home safely she took off alone for Pennsylvania. The way Tubman got around smoothly was something called the Underground Railroad (Biography). The Underground Railroad is a network of secret routes and safe houses for enslaved