Harriet Tubman

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Her Life

Harriet Tubman was born Harriet Ross in about 1820 on the Brodas plantation in Maryland. Her family had been brought as slaves from Western Africa. She was put to work at the age of 5. When she was 24 she married John Tubman, a free black man.

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Life (continued)When she learned that the plantation owner died and she was to be sold and shipped to the deep south where conditions were even harsher, she decided to escape, using the Underground Railroad.She settled in Philadelphia and returned 19 times to the South to help other slaves to freedom in the North, earning her nickname “Moses”. Read more.

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Timeline

• So that you can see Harriet Tubman’s life in relation to other historical events, here is a timeline of when she was alive.

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Here is an online timeline.

Underground Railroad

The pictures above show some sites of the Underground Railroad, it was not an actual railroad but a route for slaves from the Southern states to make their way to freedom in the North.And the guides that helped the slaves escape were called “conductors”. Read here to find out more. Also, you can take an interactive trip.

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Why Slaves Needed the Underground Railroad

"You may think hard of us for running away from slavery...To be compelled to stand by and see you whip and slash my wife without mercy, when I could afford her no protection, not even by offering myself to suffer the lash in her place...This kind of treatment was what drove me from home and family, to seek a better home for them." Henry Bibb, Windsor, Ontario, to his former owner, 1844

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• Click on the ? to take a quiz on what you have learned.

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Assessment

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Read again the quote from a runaway slave and read some poems written about Tubman, then open Microsoft Word and write a poem of your own describing life as a slave and compare it to living life in freedom. Make sure your name is on it and print it out and hand it in.

Resourceshttp://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman/rail_1

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Whatis.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/puzzles.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/puzzlean.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/quiz.htm

http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Map.htm

http://rims.k12.ca.us/ugr/history/index.html

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