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Birth
She was born in 1822 in the USA. She was born into slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman -
Head Injury
Harriet was beaten by her masters and hit in the head with a 2-pound weight which caused seizures, headaches, and narcolepsy.
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Escape Attempt
Harriet's brothers forced her to escape with them, but her brothers had second thoughts and made Harriet go back with them.
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Escape
Harriet escaped by herself instead of waiting for her brothers.
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Journeys
Over eleven years, Harriet took 70 slaves, thirteen trips, through the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She said that she could say things that most conductor can't say. She never drove a train of the tracks and never lost a passenger.
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Cook Nurse
Harriet was first a cook nurse for the Union before she was a spy.
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Scouting
Harriet took a band of scouts to scout out Port Royal for the Union in the Civil War. Under the orders of Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, her band scouted the unfamiliar land. She also helped Colonel James Montgomery with the capture of Jacksonville, Florida.
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Boat Driving
She led a Union boat around Confederate mines in the raids on plantations along the Combahee River.
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Suffrage
Harriet was a keynote at the first meeting of the National Federation of Afro-American Women.
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Aging Center
A new center for aging black people opened in Auburn, New York, named after Harriet for the land and money she donated.
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