Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland because her parents, Benjamin and Harriet Ross, were slaves. When Harriet Tubman was a child she went to a store and a man threw a sack that was very heavy to a slave. He didn't catch it and it hit her in the head. From that time on she would pass out because of that injury. As a child she ran away to the North but returned because she got lonely. She had 10 brothers and sisters.After many years, when she was 25, she ran away to the North again because her master died. If she hadn't run away she would have been sold to another master. When she left the South she became a conductor of the Underground Railroad. That is where she escaped through. She also freed many other slaves, including her family. In 1908 she opened the John Brown Home for old and indigent colored people. Although her husband had remarried she was still willing to help him. She also raised money for poor schools. A great woman, Harriet Tubman, died on March 10, 1913. There is a school named after her called Harriet Tubman High School. While she was a conductor of the Underground Railroad she freed more than 300 slaves. Also,when she was doing this, no one was captured. She would say "be free, or die here." While she was saying that she was pointing at them with a gun. ...
