Harriet Tubman was born around the 1820s as a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County. At the beginig of age five and ix she began working as a servant. after working asa servent seven years latre she began working in the fields. During working in the fields un her early teens she suffered from a seriuos injury that followed her whole life.
She married a free black named John Tubman around 1844 and she took his lastname. Tubman resolved to run away. She set out one night on foot. With some assistance from a friendly white woman, Tubman was on her way. She followed the North Star by night, making her way to Pennsylvania and soon after to Philadelphia, where she found work and saved her money. The following year she returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return, she went after her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to the North. Unfortunatly, Harriet Tubmann died around 1913.
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