Harriet Tubman
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Slavery, Slaves, Abolition movement, Abolitionists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Women’s History, African American History, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: A fugitive slave herself, Tubman was called the “Moses” of her people for rescuing numerous slaves from bondage and leading them to freedom.
Early Life
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1820 in the small community of Bucktown, Dorchester County, on the eastern shore of Maryland. She was the daughter of two slaves, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, one of ten or eleven of the couple’s children. Her ancestors had been brought to the United States from Africa sometime in the early eighteenth century. Her master, Edward Brodas,...
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