Harriet Tubman

Originally, around 1819, Harriet Tubman birth name was Araminta Ross. in Dorchester County, Maryland. being brought into slavery, she was not treated right, taking in whippings throughout her life. At age 6, she gained experience in working, but was beaten a lot. She had gotten the measles at that age,  her owners at the time thought that something was wrong with her. So they brought her back to Brodas, getting her owners changed after she got better. But then, it turned out her new owners wasn't any better than the first. They whipped her while she worked, and was taken back to Brodas due to her behavior. She was later given a bright bandana to wear over her head representing she was no longer a child. She got her named changed to Harriet, naming herself after her mother. She was injured during the time she was age 12 because she refused to help a white man in tying a man who tried to escape from somewhere.

At the age 25, she married a man named John Tubman who was a free African American who did not want to leave nor want her to travel north in escape of the area. She wanted to leave the area so she did not have to go into slavery again. But he didn't care, and he said if she does he will tell her master. She wanted freedom, so in order to have that freedom, she had left him 1849 and escaped to Philadelphia. During her escape, a white abolitionist neighbor, gave a piece of paper, in help to her freedom. So she took the opportunity heading in the direction to freedom, while receiving help from other abolitionists. After arriving to Philadelphia, she got a job where she got payed to help free slaves. In 1850, she helped slaves leave the north. She went back to get her husband, but he had already remarried so she went back.Later she was made a "conductor"of the underground railroad knowing all the rights to free territory. in 1951, she came back to the U.S. to help other slaves escape. She continued her search in other slaves to help them in freedom. In 1861, she had gotten a job in the civil war, becoming a nurse helping injured soldiers, treating them with medicines. After the war ended 1869, she got married to a man named Nelson Davis, whom she stood with for 19 years, till he had died. So she returned back to Auburn New York while supporting for women rights. But then, she died 1913. When 1995 arrived, she was honored by the federal government, bearing her name and likeness.
  

source:http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html