My report is going to be over Harriet Tubman she was born into slavery and because of her race, she was told she was not going to do anything good in life and was sold into slavery. She was born in 1822 and died in March, 1913. Born a slave in Dorchester County , Maryland. Tubman was beaten and whipped endlessly. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on the Harpers Ferry and during the post war time was a active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage. Early in her life she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a very heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave and missing him. Hitting her. Later when the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army first as cook and
