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Topic: Harriet Tubman


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  Harriet Tubman Biography Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Reverently called "Moses" by the hundreds of slaves she helped to freedom and the thousands of others she inspired, Harriet Tubman became the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad to aid slaves escaping to free states or Canada.
Tubman was never caught and never lost a slave to the Southern militia, and as her reputation grew, so too did the desire among Southerners to put a stop to her activities; rewards for her capture once totaled about $40,000.
During the Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse, scout, and sometime-spy for the Union army, mainly in South Carolina.
www.civilwarhome.com /tubmanbio.htm   (460 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.
www.teacherlink.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/tubman.html   (2152 words)

  
 Harriet Tubman
During the Civil War, Tubman attached herself to the Union forces in coastal South Carolina, serving as a nurse, cook, laundress, scout, and spy, and in 1863 she played an important part in a raid that resulted in the freeing of more than 700 slaves.
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom.(Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories)(Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait......
Harriet Tubman and the freedom train: Harriet Tubman knew the cruelties of slavery firsthand.
www.infoplease.com /id/A0849622   (368 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Harriet Tubman
Information or research assistance regarding Harriet Tubman is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution.
Go Free or Die: A Story about Harriet Tubman.
Johnson, LaVerne C. Heritage Kids: Kumi and Chanti Tell the Story of Harriet Tubman.
www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/tubman.htm   (93 words)

  
 harriet tubman bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pass the bearer, Harriet Tubman, to Beaufort and back to this place, and wherever...
Harriet Tubman - Moses of Her People Fugitive slave, Underground Railroad conductor...
Harriet Tubman (c.1820-1913) Tubman Family Alliance continues the kind of...
www.tinnitus-care-tuebingen.de /harriettubmanbibliography-83881   (216 words)

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