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Harriet Tubman's family includes her birth family; her two husbands, John Tubman and Nelson Davis; and her adopted daughter Gertie Davis. Tubman's parents—Benjamin "Ben" Ross and Harriett “Rit" Greene Ross—were enslaved people who were owned by two different families.
10 de may. de 2024 · American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman (far left) standing with family and formerly enslaved people whose escape she assisted, c. 1887. Tubman's second husband, Nelson Davis, is seated to her left; their daughter, Gertie, stands between them. Tubman married Davis, a veteran Union soldier, in 1869, and the couple adopted Gertie ...
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- Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of enslaved peopl...
- Harriet Tubman is credited with conducting upward of 300 enslaved people along the Underground Railroad from the American South to Canada. She show...
- In addition to leading more than 300 enslaved people to freedom, Harriet Tubman helped ensure the final defeat of slavery in the United States by a...
24 de ago. de 2023 · Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross around 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was enslaved for most of her childhood and early adulthood. In 1849, she escaped to freedom in the North. She became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, helping dozens of enslaved people escape to freedom.
Harriet Tubman has been known by many names—Araminta, Moses, conductor, daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt. All encompass the intersecting identities and experiences that Harriet Tubman encompassed over her lifespan.
After speculating in her 2004 biography of Tubman that Margaret might have been Tubman's own secret daughter, Kate Larson found evidence that Margaret was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Woolford, a free black couple who were neighbors of Tubman's parents in Maryland and who had twins named James and Margaret.
- Guiding enslaved people to freedom
- March 10, 1913 (aged 90–91), Auburn, New York, U.S.
- Araminta Ross, c. March 1822, Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S.
Early Life. Born Araminta Ross (and affectionately called "Minty") in March of 1822 to parents Harriet (Rit) Green Ross and Benjamin Ross, Tubman was one of nine children. The Ross family were enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland. Chattel slavery determined that Black people were property that were bought and sold.
29 de oct. de 2009 · Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents, Harriet (“Rit”) Green and Benjamin Ross, named her Araminta Ross and called her “Minty.”
