Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman

• By Tieashia Franklin
• Period 2nd

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Questions

• Since Martin Luther King Jr. have a day to
  celebrate for wanting equal rights should we have
  one for Harriet Tubman?
• How did she escape with a lot of slaves and NEVER
  got caught?
• How old was she when she died?

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Harriet Tubman

• Birth name Araminta Ross
• Born In Maryland In the 1820s
• Died in 1913
• She got married twice. To John Tubman and Nelson
  David
• She had 2 kids.
• She helped as a scout, spy, and a nurse in the
  troops. She also helped the elderly.

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How she got threw it.

• She knew people that were once slaves and she
  told them that she was trying to get her family
  and other slaves to a free land. So they helped
  her by telling her people that will help hide her
  and the slaves and to get what they need to get
  where theyre trying to get.
• She took her family to Canada and it wasnt safe
  anymore so she had to take them somewhere else.

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Escaping

• Escaped from Maryland.
• Went to Philadelphia and Freed her family.
• Helped freed kids in the South and the North.
• She followed the North star to the Freedom
  Land.
• Freed about 300 slaves and never got caught

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Who was she?

• Harriet Tubman was born a slave and didnt die
  one!
• Harriet Tubman was a African American that helped
  freed slaves in the North.
• Everyone that she freed called her The Moses of
  the People.
• She helped with the underground railroad for
  years and never lost 1 person.

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Never wound a snake kill it.

• She always had ways to get people to the Freedom
  Land.
• When somebody wanted to stop shell put a gun to
  them and say Before I will see you a slave, I
  will see you in your grave.
• When people was worried about being captured she
  say Live North, or Die here!
• Quotes
• I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was
  one of two things I had a right to, liberty or
  death if I could not have one, I would have the
  other.
• I never ran my train off the track, and I never
  lost a passenger.

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Facts

• When she passed the Mason-Dixie line she looked
  at her hands to see if she was the same.
• Tried helping another slave while doing that she
  got hit in the head by a 2 pound weight. Changing
  her life.
• Considered as a conductor since she was the
  leader of the Underground Railroad.
• In Auburn New York she build a home for the
  elderly that she built on her lawn!!

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Answers to questions

• The Harriet Tubman Society Sponsors is trying to
  get March 10 to be Harriet Tubman day for the
  family of slaves and the people that struggled to
  get into Freedom.
• Harriet Tubman knew lots of people that would
  help her and cover up for her. While she escaped.
• Harriet Tubman Died March 10th at the age of
  93!!!

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MLA Citation

• http//who2.com/ask/harriettubman.htm
• http//www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmb.ny13
  Monday,30-Mar-98
• http//www.nyhistory.comharriettubman/life.htm
• New York History net 1996-2006
• Asante, Kete Moleti
• 100 Greatest African Americans. Amherst, New
  York Prometheus Books, 2002.

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Citation

• Shane Rob, Anita Ganer
• Harriet Tubman
• New York The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2005.