Wednesday, May 1, 2013

I appreciate you as a friend and for standing up for all the slaves and rescuing a ton of them. Our history wouldn't be the same if you didn't do that. So thanks allot for every thing you did!
In her later years Harriet Tubman attend meetings of suffragist organizations where she met women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.
John Brown:
(Harriett) was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."

Frederick Douglass:
"Excepting John Brown...I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardship to serve our enslaved people..."


Thomas Garrett:
"I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God"

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary."

Wilber Henry Siebert
"Harriet Tubman, like John Mason, did not reckon the value of her own liberty in comparison with the liberty of others who had not tasted its sweets."





I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves
Abolitionist Senator William H. Seward sold me a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York. This land became a haven for my family.
I took part in antislavery meetings. On the way to a meeting in Boston in 1860, I helped a slave who had been captured.
During the Civil War, I worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and a spy.
By 1856, my capture would have brought a $40,000 reward from the South. I overheard some men reading her wanted poster, which said that she was illiterate. I pulled out book and began reading it. This was enough to fool the men.
"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say: I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
When I was an adolesent, I was told to help restrain an escaped slave. When I refused, I was hit in the head with a two-pound weight. This caused me to have seizures and severe headaches for the rest of my life.
I got a Job in Philadelphia and save my pay to free other slaves.
In 1849 I escaped from slavery.
After making the decision of rescuing Hundreds of slaves I received some nicknames like Moses, or Minty , or even General Tubman.
In 1844 at the age of 25, I married John Tubman that was one of the best decisions I have ever made in life.
Hi my name is Araminta Harriet Ross, I was born in the year of 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland.