March 1822 – March 10, 1913

• Araminta “Minty” Ross
• Born into slavery
• 1844 – Married John Tubman
• changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage
• 1849 – escaped and made 13 missions to rescue 70+ slaves
• Tubman carried a small revolver, and was not afraid to use it
• 1858 – met abolitionist John Brown and became “General Tubman” when she helped him plan his raid (that he was killed for)
• 1859 – Purchased property in Auburn, New York
• 1860 – her last rescue mission
• Civil War worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy
• 1863 – The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war
• June 1 & 2, 1863 – Tubman guided the raid at Combahee Ferry wich liberated 700+ slaves
• 1865 She returned home to NY
• 1869 – Her biography was published – Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
• 1886 – Volume 2 was published – Harriet, the Moses of her People
• 1889 – Congress passed and President William McKinley finally approved a $20 per month pension for some of her efforts during the Civil War
• 1896 – keynote speaker at first meeting of  National Federation of Afro-American Women
• 1908 – Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged  opened on her NY property
• 1913 – She was buried with semi-military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, NY
• 1937 – Her grave marker was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women’s Clubs
• 1999 – Her grave was added to National Register of Historic Places

“There was one of two things I had a right to”, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other”

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