Harriet Tubman was a very interesting women. Harriet Tubman, was born as Araminta Ross in 1819 or 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Araminta Tubman had changed her name to Harriet after her mother, and Ross of course was after her father. Harriet was born into slavery. There were eight children in her family and she was the sixth. Her mother died when she was only five years old. The first person that owned her wasn't as mean to her as other slave owners were at this time, But sadly this man died. The man's sons decided to put Harriet up on the slave market, along with her brothers, and sisters. They were all afraid that they would be seperated. Sadly enough, they were.Now that Harriet belonged to someone else, she had to deal with being whipped as this person was mean to her. At the age of twelve, Harriet saw a girl being whipped repeatedly. She felt bad for the girl. She ran to help the girl. When Harriet got there and tried to help her, But she was seriously injured as she took a blow to the head. For the rest of her life, she would sometimes experience blackouts. She was caused Trauma. One day, when Harriet was in the woods, she saw a man who looked familiar. It was her father. She was so happy to see him again. She had seen him a few more times after this event, But then, He died. At the age of 25 Harriet got married to free slave, John Tubman. Five years later, with the fear that she would be sold again, and that her family would get seperated, she made her escape. A white neighbor, gave Harriet a piece of paper with 2 addresses on it. It gave her directions to the first house she was to go to. From there, she was put into a wagon, and t...
