Early yearsHer real name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born Ointment on June 14, 1820 on a Maryland plantation. There were 8 children in her family and she was the sixth. When he was five years old, his mother died. His father remarried a year later and over time had three more children. His father always wanted him to be a boy. When Harriet was only 13 years old, she tried to stop a person from being whipped and put herself between the two people. The white man hit her on the head with a shovel and she lost consciousness. Thereafter he suffered from terrible migraines and sometimes collapsed while working. She served as a laborer and housekeeper on a Maryland plantation. In 1844 she married John Tubman, who was a free black. In 1849 he fled to the North, where slaves could be free before the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1861 he made 19 return trips to help guide other slaves. He led them to freedom along the clandestine route known as the Underground Railroad. He also led about 300 slaves to freedom, including his mother, father and six of his 11 brothers and sisters. Adult Years Harriet's first rescue occurred in Baltimore, where she brought her sister Mary Ann Bowlet and her two children north. In 1849, Harriet was to be sold to a slave trader. She was taken away by her husband and didn't know where she would end up. She ran away that night. He only traveled when it was dark and slept during the day. He hid in haystacks, barns and houses. Harriet always carried a gun with her on her many trips to the South because a slave returning to slavery could reveal people who facilitated the passage of fugitives by offering them food and shelter. Harriet allegedly threatened to shoot anyone who, out of fear of capture, decided to return during the journey north. Slave owners offer a $40,000 reward to free free slaves. Harriet was a legendary figure. The black children called her "Aunt Harriet." Harriet received a letter from Queen Victoria in the post. She was the Queen of England. He invited Harriet to his birthday and also sent her 2 boxes filled with a black silk shawl and a medal showing the Queen's family. It was his Diamond Jubilee Medal. Toward the end of the war Harriet went to the hospital at Fort Monroe. He cleaned up the hospital...... middle of paper......ar. He made demands against the government for the pay and/or pensions of black soldiers. There he led slaves from the South to freedom in the North or Canada. These fearless blacks were called "Conductors" on the Underground Railroad. Blacks called her "Moses" because she led her people to freedom. "h Harriet appeared as a guest speaker with Elizabeth Cody Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, speaking out on the rights of women's suffrage and the control of property and wages. „h Harriet made more than nineteen trips to the South during which she led over three hundred to freedom slaves. She never lost a person and was never captured.”h After the Civil War Harriet continued to dedicate her life to others and to defend the rights of women and newly freed blacks. In conclusion, Harriet Tubman had an influence on everyone because of her courage, strength and efforts. Harriet's ingenuity, brains and strength helped her to live so long and survive in the cold world and dark than blacks..