Feb 15, 2025 · Harriet Tubman was an American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman’s Childhood. Tubman’s childhood was cut short when she was hired out at age 5 to take care of an infant. This was her first job, of many to come, away from her mother. Minty was far too young to assume such a responsibility in addition to household work.

When she was young, her enslaver’s son sold three of Araminta’s sisters to distant plantations, breaking up her family. Araminta’s mother fought successfully to keep the rest of her children with her, but Araminta learned as a child that her life would never be …

Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by enslavers as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight, intending to hit another slave, but hit her instead.

Tubman was born into slavery in 1822, and later escaped from Dorchester County, Maryland to Philadelphia where she lived as a freewoman. Once free, Tubman dedicated her life to the abolition of slavery as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She brought approximately 70 enslaved African Americans to freedom in the north.

Mar 27, 2019 · The museum unveiled a never-before-seen portrait of American icon Harriet Tubman as a younger woman, which was discovered in a photo album owned by fellow abolitionist Emily Howland. According to the museum, the photo dates back to the late 1860s when Tubman is estimated to have been in her early 40s.

Mar 26, 2019 · “Suddenly, there was a picture of Harriet Tubman as a young woman, and as soon as I saw it I was stunned,” says a grinning Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum...

Feb 10, 2017 · Harriet Tubman was in her early 30s at the latest when she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The abolitionist icon, who was born into slavery sometime between 1815 and 1825 in...

Feb 15, 2017 · When Internet users mistook Sarah Forbes Bonetta for a “young Harriet Tubman,” I thought of the incongruity of celebrating an image of the colonized African girl (Bonetta was 19 years old at the time of her portrait) over the self-emancipated free black subject that Tubman obviously represented.

1 day ago · Historians believe that young Araminta Ross spent time with her father before she took her mother’s first name, Harriet, and married John Tubman. Tubman’s teen years with her father taught her survival skills that she would rely on as she led more than 70 freedom seekers north on 13 journeys, part of what would become known as the ...