Hi, my name is Breanna. I am in sixth grade at Wadsworth School, and I am doing a report on Harriet Tubman. She was born as a slave in Dorchester County Maryland. In her youth she served as a field hand and house servant on a Maryland plantation, and in 1844, she married John Tubman, a free black man. About 1849, she escaped to the North, and before  the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, she made 19 journeys back to lead other slaves - including her own parents to freedom. Please click on the links below to find out more interesting facts on Harriet Tubman.