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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a second-generation slave who dedicated her life to fulfilling her cry to the slaveholders, "Let my people go!" She escaped from slavery, herself, yet returned to the South nineteen times to free over three hundred slaves.
Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in 1820. She was the eleventh child of her parents, Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. The entire family lived as slaves on the plantation of Edward Brodas, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet's parents were full-blooded Africans believed to be Ashanti, a West African warrior people.
The family suffered under slavery. Two sisters were sold young and Harriet herself was rented out to neighboring families (a common practice) to wind yarn, check muskrat traps, and do housekeeping. After contracting measles and bronchitis, Harriet returned to the plantation to be nursed back to health by her mother "Old Rit." At age seven, Harriet was sent away to care for a baby. One morning, while her......

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