Harriet's own husband, John Tubman was a free black man. Her status, however, remained unchanged until she fled to Pennsylvania — a free state — in Her husband did not make the journey and ultimately re-married after Harriet's departure. Harriet would return to Maryland many times over the next decade to rescue both family and non-famly members from the bondages of slavery. Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom.
In all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger. Tubman's work was a constant threat to her own freedom and safety. It is in this role as a conductor for the Underground Railroad that she is best known, and her legacy is awe-inspiring.
She liberated about 70 people on more than a dozen dangerous missions to slave-holding states in the decade prior to the Civil War, and she assisted many others with her knowledge of safe spaces and escape routes. Her bravery and activism did not end there, however.
She was active in the abolitionist movement and served the Union Army in various capacities during the Civil War. She lived a life committed to freedom and dignity for all people.
Tubman was born under the name Araminta Ross sometime around the exact date is unknown ; her mother nicknamed her Minty. She lived on a plantation in rural Maryland, was hired out to work several grueling jobs, and was subjected to cruel treatment as a child and young adult. She eventually traveled 90 miles on the Underground Railroad to Pennsylvania, a free state, under her new identity.
Tubman helped John Brown plan his raid of a Harpers Ferry arsenal, one of the major events that led to the Civil War.
The act threatened imprisonment for anyone caught assisting a fugitive and meant she was at greater risk of capture if she stayed in the U. It was in Canada that she first met John Brown, an abolitionist who believed that if he armed enslaved people with weapons, it would lead to widespread revolts and an end to slavery. Tubman helped him plan his raid on a federal arsenal by recruiting supporters and sharing her contacts and information on escape routes in the region. Try This! Explore More.
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The following year she returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return, she went after her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to the North. Tubman returned to the South again and again. She devised clever techniques that helped make her "forays" successful, including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn't be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying might put the fugitives in danger.
Tubman even carried a gun which she used to threaten the fugitives if they became too tired or decided to turn back, telling them, "You'll be free or die.
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