Sign In. Search Our Site. Brown's Site Mrs. Hawkes Site Ms. School Information. Our school is named in honor of Harriet Ross Tubman. Though just over five feet tall, she was a force to be reckoned with, although it took over three decades for the government to recognize her military contributions and award her financially.
She married former enslaved man and Civil War veteran Nelson Davis in her husband John had died and they adopted a little girl named Gertie a few years later. Harriet had an open-door policy for anyone in need. She supported her philanthropy efforts by selling her home-grown produce, raising pigs and accepting donations and loans from friends.
The head injury she suffered in her youth continued to plague her and she endured brain surgery to help relieve her symptoms.
But her health continued to deteriorate and eventually forced her to move into her namesake rest home in Schools and museums bear her name and her story has been revisited in books, movies and documentaries. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin who served under President Trump later announced the new bill would be delayed until at least In January , President Biden's administration announced it would speed up the design process.
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Tubman bought a train ticket for herself and traveled in broad daylight which was dangerous considering the bounty for her head. When she reached Caroline County, she bought a horse and some miscellaneous parts to make a buggy. She took this and her father and mother to Thomas Garrett who arranged for their passage to Canada. In Canada, she met famed abolitionist John Brown, a radical abolitionist, who had heard much about Harriet.
When he came to St. Catherine, he asked J. Loguen to introduce them. Brown called Harriet, "one of the best and bravest persons on this continent. In in Troy, New York, in which she set her mind to setting free a fugitive who had been captured and was being held at the office of the United States Commisioner. The slave, a man named Charles Nalle, did escape thanks to Tubman's efforts. He later bought his freedom from his master, a man who also happend to be his younger, half-brother.
Harriet Tubman's career in the Railroad was ending by December She made her last rescue trip to Maryland, bringing seven people to Canada. In the ten years she worked as a "conductor" on the Railroad, Harriet managed to rescue over people.
She had made 19 trips and never lost a passenger on the way. For Tubman's safety, her friends took her to Canada. Tubman returned to the U.
The Civil War had begun and was enlisting all men as soldiers and any women who wanted to join as cooks and nurses. Tubman enlisted into the Union army as a "contraband" nurse in a hospital in Hilton Head, South Carolina and for a time serving at Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis would later be imprisoned..
Contrabands were blacks who the Union army helped to escape from the Southern compounds. Often they were half starved and sick from exposure. Harriet nursed the sick and wounded back to health but her work did not stop there.
She also tried to find them work. When the army sent her to another hospital in Florida, she found white soldiers and contrabands "dying off like sheep". She treated her patients with medicine from roots and miraculously never caught any of the deadly diseases the wounded soldiers would carry. During the summer of , Tubman worked with Colonel James Montgomery as a scout.
She put together a group of spies who kept Montgomery informed about slaves who might want to join the Union army. After she and her scouts had done the groundwork, she helped Montgomery organize the Combahee River Raid. The purpose of the raid was to harass whites and rescue freed slaves. They were successful in shelling the rebel outposts and gathering almost slaves. Just about all the freed slaves joined the army.
While guiding a group of black soldiers in South Carolina, she met Nelson Davis, who was ten years her junior. Denied payment for her wartime service, Tubman was forced, after a bruising fight, to ride in a baggage car on her return to Auburn. After the war, Harriet returned home to Auburn. In , she married Nelson Davis and together they shared a calm, peaceful 19 year marriage until he died. Harriet was now left alone,. She turned her face toward the north, and fixing her eyes on the guiding star, and committing her way unto the Lord, she started again upon her long, lonely journey.
She believed that there were one or two things she had a right to, liberty or death. The Tubman-Davis brick home remains today on that property. Only twelve miles from Seneca Falls and Susan B. Anthony, Tubman helped Auburn to remain a center of activity in support of women's rights. With her home literally down the road, Tubman remained in contact with her friends, William and Frances Seward.
In , she purchased property adjoining her home and built the wooden structure that served as her home for the aged and indigent. Here she worked, and herself was cared for in the period before her death in Before she died on March 10, , she gave her home for the elderly to the Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Tubman was buried with military rites in Fort Hill Cemetery, a short drive from the home. A year after her death, Auburn declared a one-day memorial to its anti-slavery hero. Residents of the city that day unveiled the Harriet Tubman Plaque, which remains on display at the entrance of the Cayuga County Court House. She has since received man honors, including the naming of the Liberty Ship Harriet Tubman, christened in by Eleanor Roosevelt.
On June 14, a large bronze plaque was placed at the Cayuga County Courthouse, and a civic holiday declared in her honor. In , Harriet Tubman was honored by the federal government with a commemorative postage stamp bearing her name and likeness. Years later after Harriet Tubman's death, when the last remains of the Tubman Home for the Aged faced demolition, the community rallied to help pay for part of its reconstruction.
And when the Tubman home opened to the public in , hundreds attended a dedication ceremony. Blacks were among two of Auburn's first four residents, but the city has not always proven a hospitable fit for those that followed, especially in recent years. Though the black population of Cayuga County numbered 2, in , few hold political office or are employed by the county or city.
In a local white sign painter donated his labor to place two portraitlike signs of Tubman on the home's front entrance. Previously, for 40 years, says Rev. Carter, there was no indication to let visitors or passers-by know of the home's location. However, a large group of counter-demonstrators, many from Ithaca and outside Auburn, turned the group away.
In October , a multi-racial group of marchers walked from Syracuse to the home in Tubman's memory. In May Rev. Carter found a 3-by 5-foot flag with red, white and black stripes and a black swastika in the middle hanging on the front door. A suspect was later arrested.
It gave us publicity we normally wouldn't have been able to get. Though Rev. Carter says the Auburn community accepts the Harriet Tubman Home, he believes the site doesn't receive its fair share of promotion.
But a lot of those tours never get to the Tubman Home. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven. Rather than remaining in the safety of the North, Tubman made it her mission to rescue her family and others living in slavery via the Underground Railroad. In December , Tubman received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold, along with her two young children. Tubman then helped the entire family make the journey to Philadelphia.
This was the first of many trips by Tubman. The dynamics of escaping slavery changed in , with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. This law stated that escaped slaves could be captured in the North and returned to slavery, leading to the abduction of former slaves and free Black people living in Free States. Law enforcement officials in the North were compelled to aid in the capture of slaves, regardless of their personal principles. In response to the law, Tubman re-routed the Underground Railroad to Canada, which prohibited slavery categorically.
In December , Tubman guided a group of 11 fugitives northward. There is evidence to suggest that the party stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. In April , Tubman was introduced to the abolitionist John Brown , who advocated the use of violence to disrupt and destroy the institution of slavery. Tubman claimed to have had a prophetic vision of Brown before they met.
Tubman remained active during the Civil War. Working for the Union Army as a cook and nurse, Tubman quickly became an armed scout and spy.
The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than slaves in South Carolina. Photo: Benjamin F. In early , abolitionist Senator William H. Seward sold Tubman a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York. Tubman spent the years following the war on this property, tending to her family and others who had taken up residence there.
One admirer, Sarah H. Bradford, wrote a biography entitled Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman , with the proceeds going to Tubman and her family.
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