... book encyclopedia vol 19) helped about 300 enslaved African (the new encyclopedia Britannica) travel north reaching and crossing over Mason-Dixon Line, the line that divided the free from the slave states (us News). Born into slavery in 1820, Harriet Tubman, daughter of Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, was one of eleven children (Magill ... affect the rest of her life. An overseer got very angry with a male slave for leaving his work, and demanded that Harriet help him in his whipping the slave. Harriet feeling compelled to stop the slave from being beaten put herself between the overse...

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