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Women's Rights

Harriet Tubman
Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was raised under harsh conditions, and subjected to whippings even as a small child. At the age of 12 she was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted to escape.
At 25, she married John Tubman, a free African American. Five years later, fearing she would be sold to the South, she made her escape. Tubman was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. Following the route to Pennsylvania, she initially settled in Philadelphia, where she met William Still, the Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad (UGRR). With the assistance of Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, she learned......


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