Harriet Tubman

1820-1913

Harriet Tubman was born in Bucktown, Maryland, USA. She married a free black, John Tubman, in 1844. He opposed her plans to flee north, so she escaped alone by the Underground Railroad (1849). Over the next decade she led nearly 300 Maryland slaves to safety, including several siblings. She was know as ''the Moses of her people," she was devoutly religious. She helped John Brown organize his 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry. She was in the Civil War to free slaves. She was a spy in the war too. In her later years, living in Auburn, N.Y, she helped support her family and other former slaves and raised money for freedman's schools and home for elderly blacks. Harriet was a great woman and she did a lot for everyone like blacks.

1998, by Danny, fourth grade

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