At age five or six, she began to work as ... first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved ...

At age five or six, she began to work as ... first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved ...

Harriet Tubman is best known as a conductor on the ... Harriet preferred physical plantation work to indoor domestic chores. When Harriet was twelve, she spotted an overseer about to throw a ...

A plantation overseer threw an iron weight ... escape slavery were called “passengers”. Despite finding work as a free woman, Tubman travelled back to the South at least 13 times to free ...

Tubman served as a volunteer for the Union Army, working ... manages the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park. The ships ...

Born into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in ... escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania. How Harriet Tubman escaped ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 ... even helping to conduct an assault on Confederate plantations in 1863 that freed enslaved Americans. Read more about Support the Proposed ...

Wellsville resident Eddie Murphy appeared as famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman and gave a living ... regaling the crowd with Tubman’s life story in first person. Tubman was born Araminta Ross to ...