USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The injury caused a lifetime of seizures, headaches, and visions. After she married John Tubman, a free Black man, around 1844, she changed her name from Araminta to Harriet, and thus became Harriet Tubman. She escaped slavery and made it to Philadelphia, traveling alone mostly under the cover of night, in 1849.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harriet Tubman: Underground Railroad On September 17, 1849, Harriet, Ben and Henry escaped their Maryland plantation. The brothers, however, changed their minds and went back. With the help of the Underground Railroad, Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to Pennsylvania and freedom.

Detailed explanation-3: -From 1850 to 1860 she made an estimated 13 trips and rescued around 70 enslaved people, including many members of her family. She also provided information so that others could find their way north to freedom. Tubman aided so many in escaping slavery that she was called “Moses."

Detailed explanation-4: -Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad’s “conductors.” During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she “never lost a single passenger."