Kate Larson records the year 1822, based on a midwife payment and several other historical documents, including her runaway advertisement while Jean Humez says " the best current evidence suggests that Tubman was born in 1820, but it might have been a year or two later.

Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

Several years later, Tubman contacted a white attorney and paid him five dollars to investigate her mother's legal status.

" A week later, Brodess died, and Tubman expressed regret for her earlier sentiments.

Because the routes she followed were used by other fugitive slaves, Tubman did not speak about them until later in her life.

Two years later, Tubman received word that her father had harbored a group of eight escaped slaves, and was at risk of arrest.

In her later years, Tubman worked to promote the cause of women's suffrage.

The Harriet Tubman home was abandoned after 1920, but was later renovated by the AME Zion Church.

Although Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great features many of the same characters as Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, it does not fit exactly in the continuity of the Fudge books because it only focuses on Peter's classmate ( who later becomes his cousin ), Sheila Tubman.

When the American Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy.

As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook.

At one of the earliest stops, the lady of the house ordered Tubman to sweep the yard to make it appear as though she worked for the family.

Frederick Douglass, who worked for slavery's abolitionism | abolition alongside Tubman and praised her in print

Union General David Hunter worked with Tubman during the American Civil War | Civil War and shared her abolitionist views.

For two more years, Tubman worked for the Union forces, tending to newly liberated slaves, scouting into Confederate territory, and eventually nursing wounded soldiers in Virginia.

Susan B. Anthony worked with Tubman for women's suffrage.

* Harriet Tubman, a leading African American abolitionist who helped liberate scores of slaves through the Underground Railroad, worked in a Cape May hotel around 1850.

Many people called her the “ Moses of her people .” Harriet Tubman also worked as a spy during the American Civil War.

Garrett was also said to have helped and worked with Harriet Tubman, who was a very well known slave who worked to help other slaves get their freedom.

This condition remained with Tubman for the rest of her life ; Larson suggests she may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as a result of the injury.

The two men went back, forcing Tubman to return with them.

Given her familiarity with the woods and marshes of the region, it is likely that Tubman hid in these locales during the day.

In December 1850, Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold ( along with her two children, six-year-old James Alfred, and baby Araminta ) in Cambridge.

They met up with Tubman, who brought the family safely to Philadelphia.

It is likely that Tubman was by this time working with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.

During an interview with author Wilbur Siebert in 1897, Tubman revealed some of the names of helpers and places she used along the Underground Railroad.

Tubman once disguised herself with a bonnet and carried two live chickens to give the appearance of running errands.

Tubman told the tale of one voyage with a group of fugitive slaves, when morale sank and one man insisted he was going to go back to the plantation.

Tubman aided him in this effort, and with more detailed plans for the assault.

Tubman herself was effusive with praise.

Shortly after acquiring the Auburn property, Tubman went back to Maryland and returned with her " niece ", an eight-year-old light-skinned black girl named Margaret.

Tubman soon met with General David Hunter, a strong supporter of abolition.

Tubman ( far left ), with Davis ( seated, with cane ), their adopted daughter Gertie ( beside Tubman ), Lee Cheney, John " Pop " Alexander, Walter Green, Blind " Aunty " Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubman's home in Auburn, New York circa 1887

New York responded with outrage to the incident, and while some criticized Tubman for her naïveté, most sympathized with her economic hardship and lambasted the con men.

A publication called The Woman's Era launched a series of articles on " Eminent Women " with a profile of Tubman.

At the turn of the 20th century, Tubman became heavily involved with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn.

When she died, Tubman was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn.

Furthermore, in June 1863, Harriet Tubman became the first woman to plan and execute an armed expedition in United States history ; acting as an advisory to Colonel James Montgomery and his 300 soldiers, Tubman led them in a raid in South Carolina from Port Royal to the interior, some twenty-five miles up the Combahee River, where they freed approximately 800 slaves.

For 11 years Tubman returned again and again to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, rescuing some 70 slaves in about 13 expeditions, including her three other brothers, Henry, Ben, and Robert, their wives and some of their children.

Among the residents and guests were Paul Robeson, D. C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B.

Angry at his action and the unjust hold he kept on her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways.

Tubman at first prepared to storm their house and make a scene, but then decided he was not worth the trouble.

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

Tubman helped John Brown ( abolitionist ) | John Brown ( pictured ) plan and recruit for the raid at Harpers Ferry.

Tubman returned to Auburn at the end of the war.

When the National Federation of Afro-American Women was founded in 1896, Tubman was the keynote speaker at its first meeting.

* Full text of Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Medical education is offered at the A. M. Dogliotti College of Medicine, and there is a nursing and paramedical school at the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts.

* A women's honors dormitory named for her and Harriet Tubman at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, is commonly referred to as Harper-Tubman, or simply Harper.

* Harriet Tubman, mural at Bennett College, 1930

President Toure, along with President William Tubman of neighboring Liberia and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, was the vanguard behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), which has been transformed into the African Union ( AU ), at a Special Head of States Meeting held in the northern Liberian city of Sanniquelle, Nimba County, which is often referred to as the " birth place " of the OAU ( now the AU ).

Little is known about Frank's past save that he attended Harriet Tubman High School ( a real high school in Compton, California ), where he was held back at least twice.

Many famous black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, David Walker and Sojourner Truth, spoke at the African Meeting House on Joy Street.

* Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her people to Freedom, with Kadir Nelson ( Illustrator ), 2006, Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, ISBN 0-7868-5175-9

Its offices are located at Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia.

Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Juneteenth Festival of African American plays.

Antislavery activist Harriet Tubman guided fugitives at night and bribed custom officials to turn a blind eye.