jan 1, 1820 - Around the year Harriet Tubman is born

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Harriet Tubman is well-known slave born in the 1820s that helped others achieve freedom. Araminta Ross, her name as a child, was set to be a domestic servant since the age of 5. However, she had shown signs wanting freedom since the young age of 12 when she tried to stop her master from hitting a servant attempting to escape. As a result of this, she was hit with a two pound weight which caused headaches and narcolepsy for the rest of her life. In her early 20s, in 1944, she illegally married a free black man named John Tubman. Because of this, she decided to rename herself Harriet Tubman, probably naming herself after her mother Harriet Green. She escaped to the north 1949 with her two brothers through The Underground Railroad (which, contrary to legend, she did not invent) and left her husband behind after he refused to join her and her brothers (as for him, he remarried another free black woman in 1951). Lucky for several servants, she returned to the South several times and helped a lot of servants and slaves achieve freedom. Because of this, there was an active hunt for her death and capture by the slave-owners, with a $40 000 reward hanging over her head. Fortunately, she was never caught and was active in antislavery efforts, even helping John Brown’s failed raid on Harpers Ferry. She was also incredibly helpful with her knowledge of towns and transportation routes in the south, being a spy in the Civil War. Disguising herself as an old woman, she would visit the people suffering from slavery and learn about Confederate troop placements and supply lines. As well as this, Tubman helped all the slaves find food, healthy water, shelter and a job in the North. She was also a huge help in the medical department, using remedies to heal soldiers of both races.

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