Harriet was born in 1820, on a plantation in Maryland. She and the rest of her family were slaves, and their master Edward Brodas, could work them or sell them as he pleased. But all her life she knew that she wanted to be free. She was prepared to do whatever it took to get that freedom. As a little girl she was a house slave. Her duties were helping another slave cook the meals, cleaning the hous

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves of the southern states as soon as the Union army took those states. So her dream of Freedom finally came true. With the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which absolutely outlawed slavery in all parts of the United States. In her later years she spoke out for the rights of women and the newly freed blacks. Harriet Tubman died in Auburn in 1913, at the age of ninety-three. She died from pneumonia.

e, tending to the master’s baby, and any other tasks that needed done. After that did not work out she soon became a field hand.

In 1849, Harriet finally got her freedom. But she never forgot about her people or her family. She then returned nineteen times with in the next ten years, to lead more than three hundred slaves to freedom in the North. Each trip South Harriet walked through woods and swa

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