Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her birth name was actually Araminta Ross, which she later changed to Harriet, as we all know. Her actual birth-date is unknown, but she was born in either 1819, or 1820. She was born into slavery, and while growing up, she suffered harsh conditions, and received many whippings at the hands of her slave-owner.

In 1844, at the age of 25, she married a man named John Tumbman, a free African-American, who did not share her dream. Harriet Tumbman knew she had a chance of being sold, and that her marriage was not going to work out. She had a dream that one day she would travel north. She knew that if she travelled north, that she would be a free person, but John did not want to travel north. He told her that she would have to travel by herself.

So, in 1849, she left her husband. Harriet was helped out by a white abolitionist neighbor, who gave her two names of people that would help her be successful. At the first house that she went to, she put was put in a wagon, and covered in a sack, and taken in the direction she was going.

Then, she got a ride with a couple, and went to Philadelphia. There, she had met a man named William, who was one of the Underground Railroad's Station Masters. The next thing she did was study the Underground Railroad, and after a few years of studying, she had went back to the South, and freed about 300 people.

I think that Harriet is a hero because she did not think only of herself; she thought of others also. In addition, she never gave up, she had courage, and she was a brave woman. I also think that she went through a lot just to help herself and others.