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	MSN Encarta - Harriet Tubman
		Harriet Tubman, originally named Araminta Ross, was one of 11 children born to slaves Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland.
		Harriet was put to work at the age of five and served as a maid and a children’s nurse before becoming a field hand when she was 12.
		Harriet Tubman was a likely target of the law, so in 1851 she moved to St.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567329/Harriet_Ross_Tubman.html (1177 words)

	Harriet Tubman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harriet Tubman (born 1820 or 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, died March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, Grandma Moses, or Moses of Her People, was an African-American freedom fighter.
		As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, revival speaker and fundraiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from slavery and racism.
		Harriet herself claimed she was born sometime between 1820-1825.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_Tubman (1307 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Harriet Tubman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820.
		Harriet remained a slave, but she was able to stay in Tubman's cabin at night.
		Harriet was the master of disguise A former master did not even recognize her when they ran into each other on the street.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Tubman.html (664 words)

	Animal Planet :: Australia Zoo -- Harriet
		Harriet was recruited for a second voyage aboard the Beagle in 1837, this time under the care of Commander John Wickham, who led the crew on an extensive survey of the Australian coast.
		Harriet's Brisbane caretakers mistook her for a male, dubbing her "Harry." For the next 100 years, they tried in vain to mate her with other female Galapagos land tortoises.
		Harriet was moved to Fleay's Fauna Sanctuary on Australia's Gold Coast in 1952, where, in the 1960s, it was finally discovered that she was in fact a female.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/crochunter/australiazoo/03harriet.html (470 words)

	The Life of Harriet Tubman - New York History Net
		Harriet, and one of the men had worn the shoes off their feet, and I gave them two dollars to help fit them out, and directed a carriage to be hired at my expense, to take them out, but do not yet know the expense....
		Harriet Tubman had been their "Moses," but not in the sense that Andrew Johnson was the "Moses of the colored people." She had faithfully gone down into Egypt, and had delivered these six bondmen by her own heroism.
		Harriet was a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South.
	www.nyhistory.com /harriettubman/life.htm (1408 words)

	Lesson Plan - HARRIET TUBMAN
		Araminta Harriet Ross was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820 or 1821.
		Harriet's overseer was angry at the slave and when he went after the slave, Harriet blocked the doorway to stop him.
		Harriet worked as a nurse, scout, and a spy for the Union and in 1863, she led a group of fl soldiers under Colonel James Montgomery on a raid.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/tubman.html (2152 words)

	Welcome to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
		Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, where her father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), was a prominent and influential Congregational minister.
		Harriet was one of eleven brothers and sisters, many of whom became famous reformers.
		Harriet was first a student and then a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary, a school founded by her sister Catharine.
	www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org /life (2717 words)

	Aeronautics - Harriet Quimby
		Although Harriet was now a full-time photo-journalist with a new interest in aviation, she also found time to rekindle friendship with her old friends from the San Francisco theater, David and Linda Griffith.
		Upon Harriet's death, America lost a strong advocate of aviation, believing that the United States was falling behind other nations such as England and France in the development of aircraft, pilot safety, and commercial as well as humanitarian applications.
		Harriet Quimby was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York on July 4, 1912.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/quimby.htm (2761 words)

	Barbara & Douglas Smith: Third Floor Publishing - Literature Study - Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Little Bit of a Woman
		Harriet was born in Connecticut in 1811, the daughter of Lyman Beecher.
		Her mother who died when Harriet was four years old, was a woman of prayer, asking the Lord to call her six sons into the ministry.
		Harriet was brilliant and bookish, and idolized the poetry of Lord Byron.
	www.chfweb.com /smith/harriet.html (1351 words)

	Harriet Jacobs
		To get Harriet away from his wife, who was suspicious of her husband's intentions, he built a cottage for the girl slave four miles from town.
		Harriet would later move to Rochester, New York, to be close to her brother, also a fugitive slave.
		Harriet was actively involved with the abolition movement before the launch of the Civil War.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2923.html (632 words)

	Harriet Tubman
		Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland.
		Harriet was famous with her deep religious faith, unexampled heroism, as well as an outstanding physical endurance.
		Harriet Tubman was an influential fl leader of the ninteenth century because of her courage, strength, and efforts.
	www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu /depts/edu/textbooks/tubman.html (1209 words)

	Teachers@Random Catalog \| Harriet Spies Again by Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson
		Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, the only child of a wealthy family, lives in New York City where she attends a private school and keeps track of the people and events in her neighborhood on her spy route.
		Harriet’s ambition is to become a spy or a writer, so she records all of her observations–including some awful things about her classmates–in her private notebook.
		Harriet thinks she wants to be a spy, a writer, or a philanthropist.
	www.randomhouse.com /teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385327862&view=tg (1303 words)

	Harriet Martineau
		Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802-June 27, 1876), a pioneering British journalist and writer, grew up Unitarian and was for a time a Unitarian apologist.
		Harriet and her sisters were educated at home by older siblings and tutors; only the boys went to university.
		Correspondence of Harriet Martineau is housed in a number of locations, most notably Manchester College at Oxford (a Unitarian school), the British Museum, the University College Library in London, the University of Birmingham Library, and the Boston Public Library.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/harrietmartineau.html (1958 words)

	Harriet Tubman timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the age of 12 Harriet Ross was seriously injured by a blow to the head, inflicted by a white overseer for refusing to assist in tying up a man who had attempted escape.
		Harriet was given a piece of paper by a white abolitionist neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom.
		Harriet went to Garret's house and found there were more runaways (which were referred to as passengers) to rescue than anticipated.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/0history/hwny-tubman.html (3599 words)

	The Calico Girls ~ Harriet ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harriet went to Rainbow Bridge on April 23, 2003 at 12:30 P.M. She is playing in the lilies, chasing bugs and running with Sammy, Ben, and Bindi..
		Frogs are very clever and "play dead" so she would get bored and drop it (yes, in the house) and wander off, at which point the "dead" frog would miraculously come to life.
		I have to confess she sleeps with me most of the time, and one funny thing I remember about her is waking up during the night to the sound of a little "slurping" noise.
	thecalicogirls.com /harriet.htm (878 words)

	Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad
		Harriet Tubman was a likely target of the law, so in 1851 she moved to St. Catharines, a city in Ontario, Canada, that was the destination of many escaped slaves.
		By the late 1850s a number of Northern states passed personal liberty laws that protected the rights of fugitive slaves, so Tubman was able to purchase land and move with her parents to Auburn, New York, a center of antislavery sentiment.
		Harriet Tubman, called the Moses of the fls, and Levi Coffin, a Cincinnati Quaker, were among the famous rescuers.
	www.strawberrylady.com /blackhistory/tubman/Tubman.htm (1371 words)

	Chicago Metro History Education Center
		The first is an introduction, in which Harriet tells the story of her birth, her escape to freedom, and her travels north, in peril for her life, to lead other slaves to freedom.
		While Harriet's is the main voice in the first part, some other voices and actors are needed: Fredrick Douglas, a slave catcher offering a reward, a slave family listening for Harriet to arrive, and a slave who wanted to return to slavery.
		Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and "conductor" on the railway, went south nineteen times, risking her freedom and her life, to bring others out of slavery.
	www.uic.edu /orgs/cmhec/3_htplay.html (2931 words)

	Tubman, Harriet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Trying to protect another slave, young Harriet suffered a head injury that resulted in sudden loss of consciousness throughout her life.
		Harriet navigated her way through the woods at night, found shelter and help with free Blacks and Quakers, and eventually reached freedom in
		Harriet was never caught and went on to serve as a spy, scout, and nurse for the
	www.freedomcenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=DFBAC042-97A7-4EE7-AADE41064387B4FE (474 words)

	Biography of Harriet Ann Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Harriet's mother died in 1819, the six-year-old girl was taken into the home of her mistress, Margaret Horniblow, who taught her how to read and write.
		Harriet hid for six years and eleven months in a space under the front porch roof of Molly Horniblow's house.
		In 1842, Harriet Jacobs escaped from Edenton by boat, traveling eventually to New York, where she went to work as a nursemaid for the family of abolitionist Nathaniel Parker Willis.
	www.ncwriters.org /services/lhof/inductees/hjacobs.htm (1078 words)

	Harriet Tubman
		Harriet was about twenty or twenty-five years old at this time, and the constantly recurring idea of escape at sometime,took sudden form that day, and with her usual promptitude of action she was ready to start at once.
		Harriet was now left alone, but after watching the retreating forms of her brothers, she turned her face toward the north, and fixing her eyes on the guiding star, and committing her way unto the Lord, she started again upon her long, lonely journey.
		No intimation had been given her of Harriet's intention, for the old woman was of a most impulsive disposition, and her cries and lamentations would have made known to all within hearing Harriet's intended escape.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAStubman.htm (1854 words)

	Songwriting Instruction
		Harriet Schock teaches songwriting privately in the Los Angeles area, as well as world-wide Correspondence Courses and a class for the Songwriters Guild of America.
		"Though the steps are the meat of Harriet's course, having access to Harriet's insight, experience, constructive criticism, encouragement and deep well of knowledge on a weekly basis is amazing and I value that as much as I value her steps.
		She has continued to pull out of me higher and higher standards of songwriting, yet she recognizes and encourages my individuality (as she does with all of her students), which is so rare to find in a teacher.
	www.harrietschock.com (293 words)

	Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
		Harriet Tubman has long been associated with her extraordinary work with abolitionist causes and as the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor.
		The two and one-half story, clapboard structure that became the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged was the culmination of a life dedicated to uplifting the plight of those once condemned to servitude.
		Today the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged is maintained as a museum dedicated to preserving the humanitarian vision of its founder.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny13.htm (319 words)

	Harriet Tubman -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		A runaway slave herself, Harriet Tubman helped so many fls escape to freedom that she became known as the “Moses of her people.” During the Civil War she served the Union Army as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy.
		Harriet Tubman was born Harriet Ross about 1820 on a plantation near Bucktown, Md. She was one of 11 children of a slave couple.
		Examines Harriet Tubman's use of spirituals in her work for the Underground Railroad, and helps students gain experience in working with oral tradition, biography, and song as types of historical evidence.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277443 (711 words)

	Harriet Quimby
		Harriet Quimby died in a crash in Boston Harbor on July 1, 1912.
		Harriet Quimby, a journalist by training, was the first major female pilot in the United States, and one of the world's best women aviators.
		Whatever the case, Harriet took matters into her own hands and capitalized on the situation by beginning a series of articles for Leslie's about her aviation experiences.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/quimby/EX5.htm (1423 words)

	Harriet Tubman
		Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.
		(She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after her mother.) In 1849, in fear that she, along with the other slaves on the plantation, was to be sold, Tubman resolved to run away.
		After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she would spend the rest of her long life.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html (590 words)

	Amazon.com: Harriet the Spy: Books: Louise Fitzhugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harriet M. Welch (the M. was her own invention) is the daughter of rather well-to-do socialites.
		Harriet's parents are both amusing and annoying, completely dedicated to their daughter and completely clueless about her needs.
		the book is dated (harriet wanders around sketchy neighborhoods in manhattan and is encouraged to do so by her eccentric nanny, ole golly, and has to ask when she wants to eat with her parents) and it has been banned at points, but i command you to read it anyway.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440416795?v=glance (2276 words)

	HARRIET TUBMAN
		Harriet Tubman, known by relatives and friends as Aunt Harriet, A Woman Called Moses, General Tubman, Heroine, Suffragist, Warrior, Abolitionists, Abductor, Conductor and Stationmaster of the Underground Railroad, Deliverer of Families, Humanitarian, Philanthropist, Civil War Liaison, Nurse, Scout, Spy, Navigator, Cook, Laundress and Universal Patriot.
		The Society is the voice/advocate for the preservation and recognition of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the state of Delaware.
		Harriet Tubman would never enjoy a day for herself alone, but a day for humanity, only then, will she be able to take her seat @ the world table of nations, and receive long overdue honors, awards, and recognition of the heroic struggle from enslavement to freedom.
	www.harriettubman.com (456 words)

	Harriet Tubman Home - New York History Net
		The Harriet Tubman Home preserves the legacy of "The Moses of Her People" in the place where she lived and died in freedom.
		In 1908, the Harriet Tubman Home was opened, in the frame structure that still stands [photo], and the original brick home, which has since been demolished.
		Financial contributions are needed to support the cost of adding to the home's library, and to its collection of materials related to Harriet Tubman and her life.
	www.nyhistory.com /harriettubman (654 words)

	Harriet Tubman Printout - EnchantedLearning.com
		Araminta Harriet Greene was born a slave in Maryland.
		In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman, who was a free man. She escaped slavery in 1849 and traveled north.
		After the war, she lived in Auburn, New York, where she founded the Harriet Tubman Home for Aged Negroes and worked for the voting rights of fls.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /history/us/aframer/tubman (274 words)

	Harriet Beecher-Stowe
		Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a large family.
		Harriet herself was the seventh child of her parents, Lyman and Roxana Beecher.
		Stowe was named after her aunt, Harriet Foote, who influenced deeply her thinking, especially with her strong belief in culture.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hbstowe.htm (1416 words)

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