Dana Barocas

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Journal Entries

1826

Dear Diary,

Being a kid as a slave is hard. I have to keep the baby quiet, if not I will be
whipped. I really dont want to get whipped again. It feels like someone is burning your
skin. I just have to do my best to keep this baby quiet so I will not be punished.
I tried some sugar today for the first time. It was sweet and delicious. Miss. Susan
saw me take the sugar so I ran out of the door and I am now hiding in a pigpen. Im not
sure when I will go back but I am getting hungry so I dont really know what to do. Until
tomorrow diary

-Harriet Tubman (Minty)

1844

Dear Diary,

John Tubman is the love of my life! I am so happy to have met this wonderful
man. Johns parents were slaves but their masters freed them so John was born free. We

want to get married! John is very happy but I am filled with confusion. I am not free so
what if I get sold and have to leave John. This is why I need to escape to freedom.
John was not on board with my idea of leaving. He thinks it is way too dangerous
and that I should get the thought out of my head but I cannot. I have dreams every night
of freedom and I will not let my dreams die. I will be free one day. Until tomorrow
diary

-Harriet Tubman (Minty)

1849

Dear Diary,

Today I traveled to Philadelphia and I am happy to say that for the first time I am
free. Everything here is so different. It feels really good here. I can go to school, attend
my own church and do all of this without asking permission. This is a very empowering
feeling.
I cant help but feel bad for the other slaves stuck in the south. There must be
something I can do to help them. I am thinking of going back to save them and lead them
to freedom. Until tomorrow diary

-Harriet Tubman (Minty)

1850

Dear Diary,

I have many relatives that need my help. I must go get them and help them escape
to freedom. I love everyone in my family so much; they all have to experience the power
of freedom up in the north. It is just not fair that they are stuck down there. I have to help
them. I am going to get them and many other slaves and lead them to the north using the
Underground Railroad.
In order to do this I have to be strategic. I have to use the constellations in the sky
as a map and work with the abolitionists to be as safe as possible. I know I can do this. I
will help lead people to freedom. Untill tomorrow diary

-Harriet Tubman (Minty) (Moses)

Birth Certificate

Harriet Ross
Araminta Ross
1820

Ben Ross
Unknown

Unknown

Unknown
Dorchester County

Unknown

Maryland

Araminta Ross

Ben Ross

Timeline
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1821- Mexico gains independence from Spain
1831- Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia
1841- The first covered wagons travelled westward
1844- Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates the telegraph
1848- California gold rush begins
1857- US Supreme Court rules that slaves are not citizens

1861-65- US Civil War

1863- Emancipation Proclamation
1865- Thirteenth Amendment ends slavery in United States
1867- United States purchases Alaska for $7.2 million
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Newspaper Article

1851 WANTED HARRIET TUBMAN

Harriet Tubman is taking slaves with her
and bring them to the north to free them.
She is being very successful with this
and it must come to a stop. We are
offering a $40.000 reward to the
one who finds her. Be on the look out!

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Poem

Harriet Tubman
Eloise Greenfield

Harriet Tubman didnt take no stuff

Wasnt scared of nothing neither

Didnt come in this world to be no slave
And wasnt going to stay one either

Farewell! she sang to her friends one night

She was mighty sad to leave em
But she ran away that dark, hot night
Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods
With the slave catchers right behind her
And she kept on going till she got to the North
Where those mean men couldnt find her
Nineteen times she went back South
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didnt take no stuff
Wasnt scared of nothing neither
Didnt come in this world to be no slave
And didnt stay one either

And didnt stay one either

Page,Y.W.(2007).EncyclopediaofAfricanAmericanwomenwriters.Westport,CT:GreenwoodPress.

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a former slave.
brave.
strong.
a conductor.
important on this earth.
in love.
courageous.
helpful.

Who am I?
Obituary
Here lies the body of the great
Harriet Tubman, daughter of Araminta Ross
and Ben Ross. Born in 1820
died March 10, 1913.
She was a great woman who freed many
slaves on the underground railroad.
Not only was she a Civil war nurse,
but she was also an abolitionist, advocate
of the Womens Suffrage Movement,
Civil rights activist, prominent figure in the
Underground Railroad and the first women
in America to conduct an armed military raid
. She was known as Moses because she led
so many slaves to freedom. She had many
accomplishments and will be missed by all.