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Harriet Tubman Timeline

The famous African-American abolitionist
The U.S. Civil War
Rescuing slaves via the the 'Underground Railroad'
Her involvement in women's suffrage
Her death in 1913

Why was Harriet Tubman famous?
Harriet Tubman was famous as an African-American abolitionist and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War and the role she played in rescuing slaves via the the 'Underground Railroad' and women's suffrage

Harriet Tubman Timeline

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Short Biography of Harriet Tubman
Date of Birth: Born c1820
Place of Birth : Dorchester County, Maryland
Parents: Father - Ben Ross
             Mother: Harriet Greene RossBackground Facts, Information & Ancestry: Harriet Tubman believed that she was of Ashanti lineage, from what is now Ghana. Her parents and Harriet were slaves. Her mother was initially owned by Mary Pattison Brodess and later her son Edward. Her father was owned by the second husband of Mary Pattison Brodess called Anthony Thompson. Ben and Harriet Greene Ross had nine children Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Harriet in 1820, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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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