Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. She was the sixth of eleven children. She was born in a very small one-room log hut that was located behind her family's owner's house. The hut had a dirt floor, no windows, and no furniture, kind of like a sod all but the logs. She wasn't born Harriet Tubman, she was born Araminta Ross, (Minta or Minty for short). Her parents said they would have Minta as her pet name, until she got older. Her Mother's name was Harriet Green also known as Old Rit and her father's name was Benjamin Ross. Both her mother and father were of course slaves. So they had to have a master whose name was Edward Brodas. Neither Minta's mother nor her father could read or write, but we all know that the needed some kind of way to tell the days apart. They measured days by sun up 5:00a.m or 6:00a.m. Sun high 12:00a.m. And sundown 7:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. They measured months by seasons Seedtime/spring, Cotton Blossom time / summer, Harvest/Fall and Christmas/Christmas. And the years were determined by something big that happened that year like one year might have been the year of the big storm, or the big drought, the old master died, the new master wa
At the age of 24, Minty married a free black man named John Tubman. Around that time Minty changed her name to Harriet in fear of being sold away to a different plantation. So in fear of being sold Harriet ran away on foot one night with the help of a nice white woman. She ran without her husband because she told him about it and he said that if she ran he would tell. She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon after to Philadelphia, where she found work. She also went from safe house to safe house to get away from slavery. A safe house was a house that people that were against slavery lived in. You would know it was a safe house if there was a lantern on in the window at night. A year after being free she made a trip back to get her two sisters and their family's. As a matter a fact Minta was beaten all the time by her masters. One time, Minta saw a bowl filled with lumps of sugar and decided to take one. Minta's mistress, Miss. Susan, saw her take it and started chasing her with a whip. Minta ran away and hid out with the pigs. She had to go back, because she was really hungry. When she went back she got whipped over and over again. She said, "Now you know, I never had anything good, any sweet, no sugar, and that sugar right by me did look so nice." At the age of 14
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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