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When Was Harriet Tubman Born?

Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland.

Harriet Tubman Laurie Calkhoven, An introduction to the life of Harriet Tubman, who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves.

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c.

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Harriet Tubman is a hero because she fought for her family, community, and herself.

Indeed, over the course of his life he drew support from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman among others.

Her parents, Harriet (“Rit”) Green and Benjamin Ross, named her Araminta Ross and called her “Minty.”

Rit worked as a cook in the plantation’s “big house,” and Benjamin was a timber worker. Araminta later changed her first name to Harriet in honor of her mother.

Harriet had eight brothers and sisters, but the realities of slavery eventually forced many of them apart, despite Rit’s attempts to keep the family together.

When Harriet was five years old, she was rented out as a nursemaid where she was whipped when the baby cried, leaving her with permanent emotional and physical scars.

Around age seven Harriet was rented out to a planter to set muskrat traps and was later rented out as a field hand.

She later said she preferred physical plantation work to indoor domestic chores.

A Good Deed Gone Bad

Harriet’s desire for justice became a