Research about Harriett Tubman

Harriet was born a slave and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore where the lines between slavery and freedom were often blurred. Harriett Tubman became a famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of slaves to freedom. Tubman's work was a constant threat to her own freedom and safety. Slaveholders placed a bounty for her capture and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was an ever-present danger, imposing severe punishments on any person who assisted the escape of a slave.  Harriet suffered life-long headaches, seizures and had vivid dreams as a result of a traumatic head injury she suffered as a teenager while trying to stand up for a fellow field hand. These same symptoms gave her powerful visions that she ascribed to God and helped guide her on many trips to the North while leading others to freedom. 

Her name Harriet is an English baby name. In English, the meaning of the name Harriet is Rules the Home. Harriet also earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom.  In all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger

Harriet Tubman was born  Araminta Ross. She would later adopt the name "Harriet" after her mother: Harriet Ross. The surname Tubman comes from her first husband, John Tubman, who she married in 1844.  Harriet had one daughter, Gertie, whom she and her second husband (Nelson Davis) adopted after the Civil war Harriet Tubman was born in 1822 and died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913. Before her death, she told friends and family surrounding her death bed “I go to prepare a place for you”.She was then buried with military honors in Fort Hill Cemetery in New York. then In 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the countenance of Harriet Tubman will appear on a new $20 bill