Name: The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman - Janell Hobson
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championing the cause  of women's suffrage;

these are just a handful  of the accomplishments

of one of America's most courageous heroes.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland,

Born into chattel slavery, Araminta,  or Minty, was the fifth of nine children.

Two of Minty's older sisters  were sold to a chain gang.

who subjected her to whippings  and punishment.

Young Minty's life changed forever  on an errand to a neighborhood store.

There, an overseer threw a two-pound  weight at a fugitive enslaved person,

Her injury caused her  to experience sleeping spells,

but there were no buyers for an enslaved  person who fell into sleeping spells.

She was instead put to work  with her father, Ben Ross,

Lumbering increased  Minty's physical strength

and put her in touch with free black  sailors who shipped the wood to the North.

From them, Minty learned about  the secret communications

information that would prove  invaluable later in her life.

In this mixed atmosphere of free  and enslaved blacks working side by side,

Minty met John Tubman,  a free black man she married in 1844.

After marriage, she renamed herself  Harriet, after her mother.

When his widow planned to sell  off her enslaved human beings,

Harriet feared she would be sold away  from everyone she loved.

She had heard of  an “underground railroad,"

willing to harbor fugitive enslaved people on their way north.

So Tubman fled with two of her brothers,  Ben and Harry.

They eventually turned back,  fearing they were lost.

Harriet dreamed  that she could fly like a bird.

Looking down below,  she saw the path to liberation.

And in the autumn of 1849,  she set out on her own,

following the North Star to Pennsylvania,  and to freedom.

Tubman returned to the South  13 times to free her niece,

and worked diligently  with fellow abolitionists

Harriet Tubman worked  as a Union army nurse,

In 1863, she became the first woman  in United States history

liberating nearly  700 enslaved persons in South Carolina.

After the war, the 13th Amendment  to the U.S. Constitution

and the 15th gave voting rights  to formerly enslaved black men.

But she was undaunted, and she persisted.

She raised funds  for formerly enslaved persons

and helped build schools  and a hospital on their behalf.

In 1888, Tubman became more active in the fight for women's right to vote.

In 1896, she appeared  at the founding convention

of the National Association  of Colored Women in Washington D.C.

and later at a woman's suffrage  meeting in Rochester, New York.

“I was a conductor  on the Underground Railroad,

I never ran my train off the track,  and I never lost a passenger.”

various friends and allies  helped her in the fight

to collect a veteran's pension  for her service in the Union Army.

In 1899, she was finally  granted $20 a month.

the United States  Treasury announced in 2016

that Tubman's image will appear  on a redesigned twenty dollar bill.

she kept the freedom  of her people in mind.

"I go away to prepare a place for you.”

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