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1619 |
The first African slaves are brought to Virginia |
1808 |
The parents of Harriet Trubman were married |
1808 |
Linah was born |
1811 |
Her sister Mariah Ritty was born |
1813 |
Her sister Soph was born |
1816 |
Her brother Robert was born |
c1820 |
The timeline of Harriet Trubman starts when Araminta Ross was born c 1820 to Ben and Harriet Greene Ross. She was given the nickname of "Minty". She would later become famous as Harriet Tubman. Her place of birth was Dorchester County Maryland |
1823 |
Her brother Ben was born |
1825 |
Her sister Rachel was born |
1830 |
Her brother Henry was born |
1832 |
Her brother Moses was born |
1826 |
Harriet Trubman was hired out to a woman named "Miss Susan" as a nursemaid and later a planter named James Cook. She was beaten by both her owners |
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Edward Brodess sold three of the children (Linah, Mariah Ritty, and Soph) |
1830 |
Harriet was sent to work in the fields - it was tantamount to hard labor |
1834 |
She was hit in the head by overseer for trying to help a slave, which she said "broke my skull". |
1840 |
Her father Ben was manumitted – released from slavery |
1844 |
Harriet married a free black man called John Tubman and soon after her marriage she changed her name from Araminta (Minty) to Harriet |
1849 |
Harriet became ill and Edward Brodess tried to sell her as her value as a slave was decreasing - he failed |
1849 |
17 September 1849 - Harriet and her brothers Ben and Henry escaped from slavery |
1849 |
3 October 1849 - A Runaway notice was posted in the Cambridge Democrat which offered a reward of up to one hundred dollars for each slave returned |
1849 |
Harriet and her two brothers returned to their owners, fearful of repercussions to the family |
1849 |
Harriet Tubman contacted the network known as the Underground Railroad asking for their help in a further escape plane. She was successful in her escape and fled to the North |
1850 |
She worked in a hotel in Philadelphia. |
1850 |
The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, enabling law enforcement officials, even in states which had outlawed slavery, to aid in the capture of runaway slaves. Heavy fines and punishments were imposed on anyone who abetted the escape of runaway slaves. |
1850 |
December - Harriet Trubman arranged with William Still via the Underground Railroad to rescue her sister, brother-in-law and their two children from slavery |
1852 |
Again using the Underground Railroad rescued her brother Moses |
1852 |
Discovered her husband's infidelity. He subsequently married another woman |
1852 |
At this point Harriet Trubman became an active Underground Railroad operator and during her lifetime helped rescue many hundreds of slaves escape to New York, New England, and Canada |
1857 |
She was able to rescue her parents |
1858 |
Harriet Trubman met the abolitionist John Brown |
1859 |
John Browns raid on Harper's Ferry |
1859 |
Abolitionist US Senator William H. Seward sold Harriet Tubman a small farm on the outskirts of Auburn, New York |
1861 |
Abraham Lincoln elected President of the US and the Civil War starts |
1861 |
Harriet went to Troy, New York where she met Charles Nalle and undertook her last mission to Maryland |
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Harriet Tubman was never captured and neither were the slaves that she helped. Many years later, she told an audience: "I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger." |
1863 |
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation |
1865 |
The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated. The 13th amendment to Constitution abolishes slavery |
1865 |
Harriet Tubman returned to Auburn at the end of the war |
1868 |
14th amendment to the Constitution grants citizenship to former slaves |
1868 |
Harriet Tubman meets a Civil War veteran named Nelson Davis |
1869 |
18 March 1869 she married Nelson Davis at the Central Presbyterian Church |
1869 |
Sarah H. Bradford wrote an authorized biography entitled Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman which was published in this year |
1870 |
15th amendment to Constitution prohibits states from denying the right to vote because of race |
1873 |
Harriet was swindled out of her money by a con involving gold money transfers |
1874 |
Harriet and Nelson adopt a baby girl named Gertie |
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In her later years Harriet Tubman began attending meetings of suffragist organizations where she met women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland |
1913 |
Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on 10 March 1913. |
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