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HARRIET TUBMAN
Title: HARRIET TUBMAN
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2695 | Pages: 11.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
HARRIET TUBMAN
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Ross Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County Maryland, in 1820(or 1821 depending on the source.) There were no records kept about the date of birth of children born into slavery, so there are many guesses that have been listed. She was born with the name Aramita Ross, but her mother’s name, Harriet, became her name as she got older. Before the age of five she was put to work in …showed first 75 words of 2695 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2695 total…Harriet Tubman was honored by the federal government with a commemorative postage stamp bearing her name and likeness."13 "Her name deserves to be handed down to posterity, side by side with the names of Joanne D'Arc, Grace Darling, and Florence Nightingale, for not one of these women, noble and brave as they were, has shown more courage, and power of endurance, in facing danger and death to relieve human suffering, than this poor black woman ."
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