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|| 10 Opens a nursing home || Harriet Tubman opened a home for the aged. She also kept appearing at conventions until the 1900s. Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913 at the age of 91 in New York. ||
 * || **Harriet Tubman never gave up** || **Harriet Tubman** ||
 * [[image:ht1.jpg width="162" height="109"]] || 1 She was beaten at a young age || When Harriet Tubman was a young teen, she was nearly killed by an iron weight thrown by an overseer. The injury caused headaches, seizures, and sleeping spells for the rest of her life. ||
 * [[image:htFarm.jpg width="313" height="162"]] || 2 Edward Brodess || On March 7, 1849, Edward Brodess sied at his farm at the age of 47. He left tubman and her family at a risk of being sold from edward's previous debt. In 1849 Harriet Tubman took a stand for herself, and learned about the Underground Railroad. ||
 * [[image:ht_rail_road.jpg width="271" height="238"]] || 3 The underground railroad || The Underground Railroad was running smoothly. Harriet Tubman soon found her way to philidelphia. While, she was working, she sat money aside for her family to escape. From 1850 to 1860, Harriet Tubman conducted eleven to fifteen escape missions,while giving insrtuctions to fifty people, who found their way to freedom. || 3 ||  ||
 * [[image:ht_slave_act.jpg width="246" height="362"]] || 4 The slave act || Harriet Tubman escaped slavery. Harriet Tubman purchased a home in Auburn, New York in 1899. In 1850, there was a law made, that states if any citizen assisted a slave to escape it was illegal. The slave act was so strong, that if any United States Marshall refused to return a runaway slave, they would have to pay a fine of 1,000 dollars. ||
 * [[image:ht_john_brown.jpg width="286" height="352"]] || 5 Meeting john brown || Harriet Tubman met John Brown in 1858. Harriet Tubman was so impressed about John Brown's passion for ending slavery, that she joined him on his planned raid. Harriet Tubman became ill in 1859, which caused her not able to join John Brown. In 1859 Harriet Tubman got sold a home on the outskirts of Auburn. She settled her family members there. On her way to Boston, She helped rescue a slave, Charles Nelle, But he was sent back to his master. ||
 * 6[[image:htsouth-carolina.jpg width="307" height="239"]] || 6 Joining the abolitionists || Harriet Tubman joined Northern Abolitionists in South Carolina in early 1862. Harriet Tubman helped with nursing to African Americans, and hundreds of slaves who crowded camps throughout the civil war. ||
 * 7[[image:htsarah_bradford.jpg width="216" height="416"]] || 7Military services || Harriet Tubman soon began to add more military service, which included spying, and scouting. Harriet Tubman was the 1st woman to command the military in 1863. She guided Col. James Montgomery. She freeed over seven-hundred slaves. ||
 * 8[[image:ht_book.jpg width="228" height="414"]] || 8 She gets fortune and fame || Harriet Tubman returned to New York after the war. She soon began another career, she became a suffragist. Harriet Tubman got Fame and Fortune to her and her family due to Sarah Bradford who published a short biography of Harriet Tubman. ||
 * 9[[image:ht_tubman_family.jpg width="364" height="222"]] || 9 She gets married || After Harriet Tubman's husband past away in 1867. She soon married Nelson Davis, a veteran, in Maryland. For the rest of her life, she struggled with money issues. Harriet Tubman then denied her military pension. Soon after that she received a Widow's pension for being the wife of Nelson Davis, and later she got a civil war nurse's pension. ||
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