Its All About Harriet! :D

In the wonderful year of 1820, or maybe 1819, an Ah-mazing woman by the name of Araminta came into the world of slavery. What? You don’t know who that is? Well, maybe you may know her as her more famous name, Harriet Ross Tubman. Harriet Tubman was one of eleven children! Danggg! Growing up she had lots of hard work! The work started at the age of five. She was nursing children, winding yarn, checking muskrat traps, housekeeping, and loading timber. I couldn’t even do some of that stuff now! Wow, that was one strong five year old. She may have been strong, but she had always been petite…only made it to five feet exactly. At the lovely age of 15 she was hurt very badly. So badly it affected her the rest of her life. You see, a slave was attempting to run away and Harriet Tubman was trying to stop him. The supervisor saw the slave running away and threw a two pound lead weight, aiming for the runaway, but he hit Harriet. Later on in her life she found out that she was no longer an actual slave, because her mommy had been freed from the courts. An attorney had advised her not to take it to the courts though, because they would not listen since so much time had passed since then. Eventually she met a free black man living near by. They started talking and then after a while they were married. How cute?(: Well, this guy turned out to be not so nice! He threatened to betray her if she attempted to runaway. He said he would send farther south down the river. Eeeekkk!): So, in the year of 1849 she snuck out. SHE ESCAPED! Yayy(: After she had escaped she went to work as a household servant. Hmmmm? I don’t really think there is that big of a difference…is there? Hahaha(: In 1850, one year after she escaped, she came back to help other slaves escape to freedom. She continued helping rescue slaves for 10 years. In those 10 years she made 19 trips and rescued over 300 people! What a helper(: She never lost a single slave. If a slave ever tried to turn back she would pull out her rifle and say, “Move or die.” That’s scary! Hehe(: She later became a spy for the Union Army and then a scout during the Civil War. She didn’t ever get paid though. Due to the fact she was black and a woman. That’s pretty messed up. Although, eventually she did get paid half of her second husbands, Nelson Davis, pension. Which was only $11,750. Throughout her life she was a spy, a nurse, a scout, a feminist, a special reformer, and a conductor for the Underground Railroad. Wow, she did a lot! During her “last years” she turned her home into a place for needy people and old people. How nice! :D In the awful of March, on the awful number 10, in the awful year of 1913, Harriet Ross Tubman died. )’:


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Photograph. History Notes. By Mumia Abu-jamal. 8 Aug. 2002. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. .

Freeing Slaves.(=

Harriet Tubman also influenced America by freeing hundreds of slaves! Man, that must have been a lot of work! She freed OVER 300 hundreds slaves. Wow. To make things even more Ah-mazing, she did it in only 19 trips; but wait! It gets even better![: She did all of this in only ten years, yeah, ten years!(= In those ten years, or 19 trips, she never, NO NOT EVER, lost a single slave. I am sure her threats helped with that. Haha(: I mean, if someone pulled out a gun and told me to keep going or I would die, I would probably keep going to. Everyone wanted to catch her, but they never did. If someone was to capture Harriet Tubman they would get $40,000. Noone ever caught her though. She was a sneaky little girl! Teehee(: She had to rely solely on her own knowledge of nature to find her way to freedom since, she never learned to read or write. And, to make things even harder for her she still struggled with her random spells of unconsciousness. That must have been really hard. While on their way to freedom she would randomly just fall unconscious. Gawsh, that would suck, but it didn’t stop her!(:

Clavin, Matthew. "Tubman, Harriet." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010.
"Harriet Ross Tubman." Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010.
"Harriet Tubman." Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 26 Feb. 2010.
"Harriet Tubman." Biography Resource Center:African Americans. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010.
"Harriet Tubmans Back Pay (Americana) (Brief Article)." Student Resource Center-Gold. Gale, 12 Jan. 2004. Web. 24 Feb. 2010.
"Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913." Student Resource Center-Gold. Gale, 2003. Web. 24 Feb. 2010.

Harriet Tubman. Photograph. African-American History Online. 2001. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. .

Changing the World One Step at a Time.[:

Freeing slaves wasn’t the only way Harriet influenced America. She also gave a great name to African American women everywhere.(: People thought of African Americans everywhere stronger and smarter, more like people, As well as women everywhere. She served in the Civil War as a scout and a spy, worked as a nurse and household servant, was a feminist and social reformer, and lets NAWT forget she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She did lots for the people around her. They aren’t the only ones that were affected by all that she has done though. People now, people then, and people who will be are all affected. Thanks to how one incredible person, Harriet Tubman, changed the world by freeing slaves and helping out the needy and elderly, by thinking about people other than herself and being helpful. Lets all give her a huge round of applause. :D


"Harriet Tubman." Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 26 Feb. 2010.

Tubman, Harriet. Photograph. African-American History Online. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. .

Fun Facts! :D

Would you like to know some fun facts about Harriet Tubman? I thought so. Well, here is one for you. When she was fifteen she was hit in the head with a two pound lead weight. OWIEE! There is a very unreasonable explanation behind this. One day, a slave was attempting to escape and Harriet was trying to stop him. The slave owner saw him while Harriet was standing between the two. The slave owner threw a 2 pound lead weight and it hit Harriet. That sucks. Want another? How about, the fact she left her husband. Her husband was a not very nice person. When she told him about her plan to escape he got very mad. He told her if she attempted to escape he would leave her and send her “farther down the river.” That meant that he was going to send her farther south to a new slave owner. See, I told you he was not very nice. Well, after he told her that she snuck out in the middle of the night and successfully escaped. Yayyy(: The last fun fact I have for you is about her threats. If a slave ever tried to turn back in the middle of an escape she would pull out her rifle and say, “Move or die.” Eekk! This is one of the reasons she never lost a single slave.



"Harriet Ross Tubman." Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010.
"Harriet Tubman." Biography Resource Center:African Americans. Farmington Hills, 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010.
"Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913." Student Resource Center-Gold. Gale, 2003. Web. 24 Feb. 2010.

Photograph. Sketch of the Day. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. .

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