Harriet biography

Harriet Tubman is an American hero and an icon of freedom, a five-foot-tall African American abolitionist who guided hundreds of slaves away from the bondage of slavery.

She is the best known female abolitionist of antebellum American.

Illiterate but profoundly religious, Tubman was born into slavery between 1815 and 1825 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Her birth date is unknown as paper records of slaves’ births were not kept at the time.

Tubman harriet biography

Tubman’s birth name was Araminta “Minty” Ross. Later, before she escaped, she changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother and adopted her husband’s last name, Tubman.

During her early life, as a young girl, she lived in harsh conditions and violence and a skull fracture that nearly killed her and affected her for the rest of her life.

She refused to live in under the oppression of slavery and found the courage to liberate herself and those she loved.

Once she settled in the north she built a support netw