1820- Harriet Tubman was born. As a little infant, she was known to be called Minty or Minta. Her parents were known as Old Rit and Ben. They took care of her until she became older. During her young ages, she was curious but started to know what was going on. She was able to work, but not in the fields. She would bring water to the field hands and listen to their songs and watch their movements.
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1826- Harriet became six years old. She was also sold to her first temporary owner. Her job was to help her owner with her weaving. After a whle Harriet lacked off her job. That led her owner to make her check her husband's muskrat traps. During that job, she got the measles so she got sent back to the Brodas Plantation.
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1844- At the age of 24, Harriet married John Tubman who was a free African American. He didn't share the same dream as Harriet, for John didn't want her to go north. He said that they were fine just where they were. He would question why she wanted to go to the north and he even threatened to tell her owner if she had run away.
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1849- Harriet was given a piece of paper with two names and was told how to find the first house on her journey to freedom. At her first house she was put in a wagon, covered in a sack, and driven to her next location. After she hitched a ride from a husband and wife driving on the road, she got a job in Philedelphia and saved her money to help free slaves. During that time Harriet met William still, who was one of the railroad's most busiest "station masters."
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1850- Harriet became an official conductor of the Underground Railroad. That meant that she knew all the routes to the free land. She had to take a silent oath for the secret of the Underground Railroad. She took a trip back south to rescue her brothers and some friends. Since they were already in the process of running away, she took them through a river and to the house of Thomas Garret.
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1851- Harriet came back for her husband John Tubman but he did not want to leave, for he had married again. So she went back north. She went to Thomas Garret's house and she found that there were more runaways/ passengers than she had thought there would be. Harriet had to give a baby sedative so that the baby would not cry.
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1857- Harriet met William H. Seward and his wife Frances. Seward was the home of US senator and former New York state governor. His wife, Frances provided Harriet's niece, Margaret, a home after Harriet helped her escape from Maryland. They also provided a home for Harriet herself. Then she relocated her parents from St. Catherine's. When it was sold for a small sum, it became Harriet's base of operations when she wasn't aiding fugitives from slavery and speaking in support of the cause.
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1861- Tubman returned to the United States from Canada and the civil war had begun. They were enlisting all men as soldiers and any women who wanted to join as cooks and nurses. Harriet enlisted to the Union army as a contraband nurse in a hospital. She treated her patients with roots that she had found and recognized. Although she treated the wounded soldiers, she didn't catch any of the deadly diseases that the soldiers could have carried.
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1869- After the war harriet had married Nelson Davis who was a soldier in the war. Their marriage lasted 19 years until Davis died. Harriet had married him because he was in need and injured from the war. Nelson Davis was about 20 years younger than Harriet Tubman.
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1891- Since Nelson Davis served as a soldier in the union army, Harriet recieved $20 per month.
1903- Harriet recieved a note from feminist Susan B. Anthony. 1908- Harriet purchased property adjoining her home and built a wooden structure that served as her home for the aged and indigent. She worked there and herself was cared for until she died. |