Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Her job was a field and hand servant on a Maryland plantation. She married John Tubman in 1844 he was a free black. She escaped to the north in 1849 and started her life of helping other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a route that helped slaves to freedom. Her home was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad. There were people along the Underground Railroad called conductors. They were people who let the slaves stay in their homes at night because if the slaves slept outside the slavehunters would catch them. Harriet was called the Moses of her people. In the civil war she served as a cook, nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army. She died in 1913.

1998, by Anthony, fourth grade

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