Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 on a large plantation in Dorchester County, She was the sixth of eleven children. She was born in a verysmall on-room log hut, that was located behind her families owners house. The huthad a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture. Her fater, BenjaminRoss, and mother, Harriet Green, were both slaves. They were from theAshanti ribe of West Africa. Edward Brodas, Harriet's owner, hired her outas a laborer by the age of five. The buying and selling of humans was a big deal in America between thelate 1600's and the 1800's. By 1835 there were over two million black men,women, and children who were slaves. These people were bought and sold. Noone cared if husbands and wives got weparated or if children were separatedfrom their parents. Slaves were not treated like people. No one reallycared what happend to them Harriet was beaten by her masters all the time. They saw as a wild child. One tiem, Harriet saw a bowl filled with lumps of suger and decided to takeone. Harriet's mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasingher with a whip. Harriet ran away and hid out with the pigs. She ahd to gobakc, because she was really hungrey. When she went back she got whippedover and over again. She said, "Now you know, I never had anything good, nosweet, no suger, and that sugar right by me did look so nice." By her early teens, Harriet was no longer allowed to work inside, so shewas hired out as a filed hand. She work very hard and long hours out in thefields. There was no such thing as a rest for slaves. In 1835, Harriet came between her owner and a slave who was running away. The owner threw a lead weight, that weighed 2 punds, at the runaway, but ithit Harriet instead. the hit put hir in a coma and it took months for her torecover. She never fully recovered from the hit and after that suffered fromblackouts, really bad headaches, and sleeping spelss for the rest of herlife. ...
