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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross 1822?-1913) to Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross on a Plantation in the state of Maryland. She was an African American Political Activist who was born into slavery. She eventually escaped slavery in 1849, fleeing up north to New York City where slavery was abolished. She got the last name Tubman after marrying John Tubman who was a free man. She is best known for her heroic pursuits of traveling on foot for hundreds of miles back and forth to different slave plantations; risking her freedom and life to help many others escape the harsh reality of slavery. With the help of the Abolition movement, there were safe houses along the way where she and the escapees could find food and shelter. However, these pipelines to freedom were extremely short lived and dangerous for all involved. These safe havens are historically known as the Underground Railroad. Her great contributions to the escape to freedom movement earned her the name "Minty Moses", as sort of a type & shadow of Moses in Biblical days. As a young child Harriet was severely beaten; she received a blow to the head that resulted in massive trauma. Harriet suffered with severe headaches, seizures, and claimed to have had dreams and visions that she said were from God. Those experiences as a result led to her on her personal mission that helped others to included her own family member to escape. Harriet Tubman's heroic contributions did not end with her helping hundreds of slaves to freedom; she also served as a nurse, cook, and the first African American woman to become a spy for the Union Army. She also helped John Brown recruit men for the raid on Harper's Ferry; and she was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war that led to the freedom of more than six-hundred enslaved people. Harriet would later continue her work as an Activist for Civil Right and the Women's Suffrage movement. After years of service, she settled down in her home in New York; she later donated that home to the church. Harriet eventually fell ill and was placed in a care facility for African Americans where she died on March 10, 1913 at the age of 92 years old. Harriet Tubman’s contributions still speak in this day and time; she was a true leader, philanthropist, Renaissance woman, and an icon today. References

Britannica Academic, s.v. "Harriet Tubman," accessed October 10, 2019, https://academic-eb-com. ezproxy.liberty.edu/levels/collegiate/article/Harriet-Tubman/73673.

Clifford, Kate, Bound for the Promise Land: Harriet Tubman Portrait of an American Hero. One World, February 19, 2009.

Oertel, Kristen T. Harriet Tubman: Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century. New York: Routledge, 2016.