1. Harriet Tubman By Abby Brodbeck

2. Who is she? • Harriet was a women born into slavery, who escaped to the north to become free, but then rescued more slaves. • She is known as a Humanitarian, an American abolitionist, and a woman of strong faith. She was also a spy for the Union, too. • A famous person who empowers women and who is a great female role model for girls and women everywhere. • She was a courageous woman who, as a child, made up her mind she would not die a slave.

3. Where did she live? • Harriet lived many different places in her time, being that she was shipped to different masters as a child through adulthood. When she was free, she then traveled along the “Underground Railroad” to free more slaves. She made 13 trips along the “Underground Railroad” in her time. • Born in Bucktown, Maryland.

4. What did she do? • Harriet escaped slavery but then made thirteen more missions to free more than 70 more slaves. • In 1849, she escaped from slavery. • Made a choice that one wouldn’t usually consider, empowered women during her time and ours, and she was a spy for the Union when she was an adult. (See “Adulthood” for her powerful story)

5. When did she live? • Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on March 10th  1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland.” • She was married in 1844. • Died at age 94 on her birthday, of old age • Many people remember her as a wonderful person.

6. childhood • When Tubman was a child she was abused by many different masters she had and suffered a head injury from a heavy metal weight. • The injury she had made her suffer from seizures, headaches, and powerful dream activity, but she remained true to her faith. • Harriet was ordered to watch her baby brother during the day, when the baby woke and cried, she was whipped by her master. • Harriet recalls sticking her toes into the fire ashes at night to avoid frostbite.

7. Adulthood • Traveling by night, Tubman brought dozens of slaves across the line which divided the North and South. • Harriet fell in love with John Tubman during 1844, when she was 25, below the dividing line, when she was still a slave. • Knowing that her marriage could be split up because john was free and she wasn’t, she wanted to move North. John didn’t want to though. She left him for the North, followed her dreams, and ran to where she was safe. • John remarried while Harriet was freeing slaves, without her knowing.

8. Her WorK for The Union • Not many people know that Harriet worked for the Union. • She often snuck behind enemy lines and gained the trust of slaves there who told her where the Confederate soldier’s location and supplies were. • She also worked as a nurse and cook for the Union soldiers. • She scouted and spied and started a group of slaves who spied on the Confederate soldiers and told her information that she then took to the Union soldiers. • She was a valuable player in the war. Little things like that made the biggest difference.

9. What she’s Known For • Escaping to freedom • Helping other slaves escape slavery • Using the “Underground Railroad’ • Using the Big Dipper to guide her North. • Stitching quilts with codes in them to help the slaves escape. • Marrying a man she doesn't really love then leaving her husband for her own dreams. • Received an honor from Queen Victoria for bravery. • A spy for the Union, assisted in the Civil War.

10. bibliography • Works Cited • 1840, and Tubman's father Ben was manumitted. "Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 May 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman>. • "Civil Rights Leaders." Civil Rights Facts. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 May 2011. <http://civilrightsfacts.com/civil-rights-leaders.php>. • Skelton, Renee. Harriet Tubman, a woman of courage . New York: Harper Collins, 2005. Print. • MLA formatting by BibMe.org.