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==//Harriet Tubman// == ==//She was born in march 1822, Harriet Tubman was an African Ameri////can, she was a spy during the American civil war. she escaped from slavery, she had made thirteen missions to rescue more then 70 slaves, She hide them in a place called the underground rail road, she later helped John brown recuit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggling for womans suffrage.// //Harriet Tubman as a child in Dorchesters County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten by various masters to whom she was hired out.Early in her life, she suffered a head wound when hit by a heavy metal weight. The injury caused her to have seizres, headaches, and powerful visionary and dream activity, which occured throughout her life. A Christian, Tubman ascribed the visions and dreams from God.// //In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediaely returned to maryland to save her family. slowly one group at a time, she bought her reatives out of the States, and eventually dozons of other slaves to freedom, Travling by night, Tubman “never lost a passenger” Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the slaves, but no one knew that Tubman was the one helping them. When the Southern-dominated Congress passed the Slave Law of 1850, requiring law officals in free states to aid efforts to recapture slaves, she helped guide slaves farther north into canada, where slaverly was prohibitited.// //When the civil war began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and a nurse, and then as an army scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expidition in the war, she guided the Combahee river raid, which liberated more then 700 slaves in South Carolina. After the war, she retired to the family home in Auburn, New york, where she cared for her aging parents. She became active in the womans suffrage movement in New york until Pnemonia over took her. Near the end of her life, she lived, she lived in a home for elderly- Americans which she had helped found years later.//==