Harriet Tubman Biography Essay

Harriet Tubman was known for taking the “Underground Railroad” and freeing many slaves to freedom during slavery. Harriet was born to enslaved parents in Dorchester County, Maryland. Meaning when she was born, she was a slave. Her birth year was 1820-1825, they didn’t know what exact year she was born in because it was unknown. Harriet’s childhood wasn’t like any other ordinary famous Americans. Harriet as a slave, would be lashed 5 times a day before breakfast. She suffered many physical injuries and a child. She tried to stop a supervisor from pushing a slave, and the supervisor fractured Harriet’s skull with a metal weight. Harriet was one of nine children to be sold away from her family’s. Her mother ( Harriet Rit Green) was owned by Mary …show more content…
And to save many lives from suffering from being a slave. She had a quote saying “ I freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” so for her to risk her life to save over 750 slaves to freedom and to not get caught by them, nor did the people she helped to freedom didn’t get caught or arrested. During after all of her courageous from saving many slaves. Harriet served as a nurse, and a scout, and a spy for the Union Army during the civil war. Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913 at the age of 91. She died from pneumonia, and it was a natural cause to die from pneumonia because of all the diseases they had back then, and their medication wasn’t as great as it is now. And it’s still a thing to die from pneumonia still today. Her people in Auburn, New York which was her home place, erected a plaque in her honor for her death. And the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp bearing her portrait in 1978. She was then buried with the military rites in Fort Hill Cemetery Auburn, New York. Harriet Tubman’s home was abandoned in 1920, but is now a church today. And people can visit and it’s a museum and is an education