Harriet Tubman-A Well-Known Conductor

As a women that was born into slavery, Harriet Tubman was a strong and intelligent person that helped free at least 300 slaves. At the age of five and six, she began working as a house servant, during her teenage years, Tubman was sent to work in the fields. While she was only still in her early teens, she blocked a blow from a overseer for one of the other slaves. The two pound weight thrown at Harriet hit her directly in the head. She never recovered from that injury, for it always made her fall into a deep sleep. Although her real name was Araminta Ross, she changed both her first and last names after she married John Tubman. She feared of being sold, and with the help of a friendly white woman, Harriet Tubman was on her way. 

She escaped at night on foot, and arrived in Pennsylvania, where she worked to save up money and after a year she returned to Maryland and help free her sister and her sister's two children. She made the dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return, she went after her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. But she was not discouraged, she found other slaves seeking freedom and took them back with her to the North. Afterwards, Harriet Tubman returned to the south again and again to aid other slaves to freedom.

By 1856, "Wanted" signs for Tubman's capture would have brought a $40,000 reward from the South. one time, she overheard some men reading her wanted poster, and it had stated that she was illiterate. She purposefully pulled out a book and pretended to be reading it. The ploy had fooled the men.
Tubman had made trips to the South 19 times by 1860, including the challenging journey in which she rescued her 70-year-old parents.

Becoming friends with the leading abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, Tubman became a regular in antislavery meetings. During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman worked as a cook, a nurse, and a spy. 

The brave Harriet Tubman passed away in 1913.