![]() Armed with a revolver and her faith, she led at least 70 slaves to freedom. ![]() Along the way, she gave other enslaved people information to help their own flight. She would return to Maryland 13 times to rescue them. Once there, she attempted to guide other family members out of slavery. Tubman made her way from Maryland to Pennsylvania with the help of the Underground Railroad. ( Explore the Underground Railroad's "great central depot" in New York.) The attempt failed when her brothers returned to the Brodess household. So Harriet tried escape for the first time, along with her brothers. After he died, it looked certain that her other family members would be separated. In 1849, Brodess attempted to sell her but could not find a buyer due to her health. ![]() John was free, but his status was not enough to protect his new wife, now named Harriet, from being arbitrarily sold. She began to have vivid dreams and symptoms similar to temporal lobe epilepsy she interpreted her visions as divine symbols and became deeply religious.Īs a young woman, she married John Tubman and changed her name. When she was 13, an overseer threw a metal weight at an enslaved man in an attempt to make him return to work it hit her instead, causing a traumatic brain injury. As a child, her labor was rented out by slaveholder Edward Brodess. She was Harriet Tubman, and her life contained both astonishing cruelty and unlikely success.īorn Araminta “Minty” Ross in Maryland around 1820, she was the daughter of enslaved parents. Revered by some of her era’s most influential minds and given nicknames like “Moses” and “General,” she brought hope to generations of Americans, enslaved and free. She is among history’s most famous Americans-a woman so courageous, she sought her own freedom from slavery twice and so determined, she inspired scores of other enslaved people to flee, too.
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