Harriet was born Araminta Rossa, and a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland around 1820. At the age of five or six, she began to work as a house servant. Seven years later she was sent to work in the fields. While she was in her early teens, she suffered an injury that would follow her for the rest of her life. Tubman blocked a doorway to protect another field hand from an angry overseer. The overseer then picked up and threw a two-pound weight at the field hand which, missed and strikes Harriet on the head. She never fully recovered from the blow, and later caused her to have spells in which she would fall into a deep sleep.

Around 1844 she married a free black named John Tubman and took his last n

Becoming friends with the leading abolitionists of that time, Harriet took part in antislavery meetings. She worked closely with black antislavery activist William Still in Philadelphia and with Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Garrett, a Quaker who lived in Wilmington, Delaware. Abolitionist John Brown gave her the title "General Tubman. On the way to such a meeting in Boston in 1860, in an incident in Troy, New York, she helped a fugitive slave who had been captured.

By 1856, Tubman's capture would have brought a $40,000 reward from the South. On one occasion, she overheard some men reading her wanted poster, which stated that she was illiterate. She promptly pulled out a book and pretended to read it. The ploy was enough to fool the men. Harriet had made trips to rescues slaves nineteen times by 1860, including one especially challenging journey in which she rescued her then 70-year-old parents.

During the Civil War Harriet worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. She helped prepare food for the 54th Massachusetts Regimen which was composed entirely of black soldiers known as the Glory Brigade. She later received an offi

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