Harriet Tubman Research Paper

Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta into slavery on the Eastern shore of Maryland in a county called Dorchester. She lived on a plantation called Edward Brodas or Brodess and later changed her name to Harriet after her mother. Both of her parents were enslaved Africans who had eleven children which the older siblings were sold to the deep south. She was born as a slave in Maryland. Tubman escaped to freedom and later led 300 other slaves to the North and Canada to their freedom. The best conductor on the Underground Railroad, aquatinted with many of the social reformers, and abolitionists of her time. She spoke against women’s rights and slavery during the time of war (Kudinski, 2002). Tubman remains one of the best histories known African American woman during the year of 1820-1913. She had a very inspiring life and many children back then wrote stories about the things that happen with her during slavery. This slavery situation had a big impact on her life because it seem to stress memories of own escape from slavery time working with the Underground Railroad. At the age of five Araminta was rented to neighbors to do house work chores and was beaten regularly by owners for not doing a good job. She was a very small …show more content…
He was a brick layer at the time of war and from suffered Tuberculosis that kept him from holding a steady job. Harriet was left responsibilities of taking care of the household because of his illness until death. He was a younger man who served in war between states until becoming ill. Davis decided to adopt a little child name Gertie since they couldn’t have kids of own. They shared a very calm marriage that last for nineteen years until his death. Tubman continued to help the sick, poor and homeless to support their efforts for black voting rights. The twenty dollars a month given to her for pension from United States government was uses to support these