HARRIET

TUBMAN
RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION
TEAM MEMBERS:
1. Gutiérrez Hernández Marijose
2. García Flores María José
3. Vázquez Morales Mel
Group: 454B

BIRTH AND WHAT HAPPENED

CHILDHOOD IN HER LIFE?
Harriet tubman was born sometime around
1820, and named Araminta Ross. She also served in the union army
Her parents had nine children, three of wich during the civil war.
were sold and sent away. In 1844, she married a free black man,
When she was only five or six years old, she John Tubman, it was this time that
take care of a baby, if the baby woke up and Araminta changed her name to Harriet
cried, harriet was whipped. Tubman.
Harriet tubman led so many out of slavery that
In 1849 Harriet heard that she was going to
harriet became known as the "moses of her
be sold, and decided to scape.
people".

AGAINST CIVIL WAR

SLAVERY
In Philadelphia she began to think of her
family, she wanted to them be free, too. In
1850, Harriet Tubman returned to Maryland
over again to lead enslaved family members
and friends to freedom.
Harriet had to be clever to avoid being caught.
She went to rescue slaves during the winter.
Harriet was never captured, and neither were
the people she was helping to escape
As the civil war neared, Harriet stopped
going to the south to rescue slaves.
Instead she helped soldiers and escape
slaves as a nurse, and later as the leader
of a band of scouts and spy.
In 1863 Harriet Tubman became the first
woman to lead an armed assault in the
civil war in a riverboat raid that freed
more than 750
slaves

ABOUT HER
ICONIC PHRASES
FAMILY
"When I found I had crossed that line, I
In 1869 Harriet was married with to a
looked at my hands to see if I was the same
veteran of the Civil War, named Nelson
person. There was a such a glory over
Charles Davis with whom she adopted a
everything; the sun came like gold through
baby, but he died in 1888.
the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I
Harriet was poor, her son Sarah Hopkins
was in Heaven"
Bradford, wrote two biographies of Harriet
“I freed thousands of slaves. I could have
trying to help she with money. Also,
freed thousands more, if they had known
Harriet started to have a pension for her
they were slaves.”
services as a nurse in the Civil War.

DEATH
In 1993 Harriet Tubman died of
pneumonia, at her funeral in New
York the semi military honored she.
Today she is an American Icon whom
was the first African-American with a
post stamp and in 2013 it was
approved the creation of a Harriet
monument in Maryland.