Would it be too much to ask for someone to revise this? Just lemme know and I'll take this question down. Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave that became a leading abolitionist. She helped other slaves escape through the underground railroad. During the Civil War, she helped the Union Army as a spy. She also became the first woman to lead an armed expedition.

Tubman was born to Harriet “Rit” Green and Ben Ross on an unknown day, in or around the year 1820. She was born into slavery owned by the two slaveholders of her parents, who later married. Her name at birth was Araminta Harriet Ross, nicknamed “Minty.” Her mother’s master’s son sold three of her sisters, effectively severing the family. Tubman carried scars for her whole life from the violence and lashes of her young life. The most severe of which was inflicted when Tubman was an adolescent. She was sent to a store, and met a slave who had left the land of their owner without permission. When ordered to help confine the escapee, she refused. In turn, the overseer that had ordered her to help hit her over the head with a two-pound weight. For the rest of her life, she suffered severe headaches, narcoleptic episodes, and seizures.

Often for Tubman’s family, freedom and slavery was blurred together. Her father was freed with the death of his former at age 45, as specified in the late slaveholder’s will. However, he had little choice except to continue to work for his living former slaveholders. Similar ordeals were supposed to apply to other members of the family, including herself, but were ignored. In 1844, Tubman married her first husband, free man John Tubman. The marriage did not last, as instead of going on the underground railroad he chose to stay behind with a new wife. On September 17, 1849, Tubman and two of her brothers escaped. The brothers changed their minds and went back.

After escaping, Tubman worked on the Underground Railroad And freed other slaves. When the Fugitive Slave Act was passed it made Tubman’s job a lot harder. The act forced free people to capture slaves that had escaped. In turn, Tubman had to lead slaves all the way to Canada. She usually traveled with them at night and in the spring or fall when the days were shorter, Carrying a gun to both protect her and "encourage" her charges when they were having second thoughts. It is believed that Tubman laid at least 70 slaves to freedom. She also instructed others how to escape on their own.

In 1861, the year the civil war broke out, Tubman found other ways to fight slavery. She worked as a cook nurse and laundress at Fort Monroe assisting fugitive enslaved people. in 1863 Tubman became head of an Espionage and Scout Network for the Union Army. This job required her to provide crucial intelligence to the union commanders about the Confederate Army. This information included supply routes and troops.

After the Civil War Tubman sat down with former enslaved man Nelson Davis and adopted child Gertie. coming soap home grown produce, raise pigs, and accepted donation loans from Friends. In 1869 she opened the Harriet Tubman home for the Aged and Indigenous colored people. In 1911 she moved into her rest home because her health from the injury in her adolescent life deteriorated.

On March 10th 1913, Harriet Tubman died. The cause of death was pneumonia. she may be dead but her Legacy still lives on. Buildings that bear her name include schools and museums, and her story has been retold in books, documentaries and movies; she even had a World War II Liberty ship named after her, SS Harriet Tubman. More recently, in 2016, the treasury of the United States and now it's to that Harriet's image will replace that of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. It has yet to be done, former president Trump announced that the bill would be delayed until at least 2026.

All at all, Harriet Tubman's life was very important to ending slavery. It took years, but Tubman played a big role in the Civil War, the escaping of slaves, and the ending of slavery. Tubman will always have an important place in our history.