Harriet Tubman When, as a young child on a plantation in Eastern Maryland, Tubman tried to protect another slave, she suffered a head injury that led to sudden blackouts throughout her life. On her first escape, Tubman trekked through the woods at night, found shelter and aid from free Blacks and Quakers, and eventually reached freedom in Philadelphia to align with William Still and the Vigilance Committee.

After hearing that her niece and children would soon be sold, Tubman arranged to meet them in Baltimore and usher them North to freedom. Tubman returned to the south a number of times to help others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Tubman spoke often before anti-slavery gatherings detailing her experiences. She was never captured, and went on to serve as a spy, scout and nurse for the Union Army.

When the government refused to give her a pension for her wartime service, Tubman sold vegetables and fruit door-to-door and lived on the proceeds from her biography.

Despite Harriet’s fame and reputation, she was never financially secure. Tubman’s friends and supporters were able to raise some funds to support her. 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. Harriet continued to give freely in spite of her economic woes. In 1903, she donated a parcel of her land to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Auburn. The Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged opened on this site in 1908.

As Tubman aged, the head injuries sustained early in her life became more painful and disruptive. She underwent brain surgery at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital to alleviate the pains and "buzzing" she experienced regularly. Tubman was eventually admitted into the rest home named in her honor. Surrounded by friends and family members, Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in 1913.

Harriet Tubman Series Artist, Jacob Lawrence, created a series of images to tell about Harriet Tubman, a woman of great courage, who helped slaves escape from the South to the North.

The series has 31 images, each with a caption, that tells about many different parts of her life. The images feature two very important aspects of Tubman's life: her escape from slavery, and her many trips back to the South to free other slaves.

Harriet Tubman Posters Assignment: Draw your own interpretation of the caption you will be given. These are the actual captions written by Jacob Lawrence that accompanied his paintings.

You will need to: - include the caption with your image - create a title for the image and - explain the image caption in your own words Expectations: - neat, colorful, fills paper completely

Harriet Tubman series, no. 10 “Harriet Tubman was between twenty and twenty-five years of age at the time of her escape. She was now alone. She turned her face toward the North, and fixing her eyes on the guiding star, she started on her long, lonely journey.”