Harriet Tubman Accomplishments

Harriet Tubman was an African American born in 1820 in Maryland. When she was born, her parents named her Araminta Ross. Her nickname was “Minty.” She was born a slave. Harriet was one of nine children. Harriet Tubman started working as a nursemaid at the age of five. When she was twelve years old, she stood up to an overseer who was beating another slave. He hit her head with a hard weight that would give her headaches and seuizures all of her life.

Harriet was not allowed to get an education. She was a slave and there was a law that said slaves couldn’t go to school. She never learned how to read or write. She worked as a nurse during the Civil War in 1861 and helped take care of sick soldiers with herbal medicines that she learned about. Harriet was a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, which made her the first African American woman in the military.

Harriet Tubman had many careers and accomplishments. She is most known for her courage and bravery, and being the leader of the Underground Railroad, helping over 300 slaves get their freedom. The Underground Railroad wasn’t an actual railroad and it wasn’t underground. It was a network of people, homes, and businesses that helped slaves escape from the American South to the free states in the north and Canada. Harriet Tubman was never caught on her 19 trips freeing

He was a free black man. She changed her name from Arminta to Harriet after her mother. She also changed her last name, Ross to Tubman . In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and went to Philadelphia. She left her husband, parents, and siblings because she was going to be sold as a slave. After the Civil War ended, she headed to Auburn, New York and bought a farm for her and her parents to live on. John Tubman died in 1867. Harriet Tubman got remarried in 1869 to Nelson Davis who had also been born a slave and fought in the war. Later, they adopted a girl named