A fighter, rescuer and... naturalist
An African American woman who conducted dozens of successful rescues—estimates range from 13 to 19 separate missions— over 11 years that brought around 70 enslaved people to freedom during the antebellum era, Harriet Tubman was an expert rescuer. Most of Tubman’s missions started by aiding runaways who were enslaved in rural Maryland and helping them […]
Tubman became deeply acquainted with two of the most significant components to Maryland’s natural environment, which was water and forests. Tubman was a naturalist, an expert of nature, science, geography, and the physical environment, in several ways. She utilized her knowledge of the physical environment and different components of the natural world to her advantage […]
Tubman: “Raised like a neglected weed”⁶
Canal work and connections
The Tobacco Stick Plantation community significantly impacted Tubman, as she reunited with her father Ben Ross here and married an enslaved man named John Tubman around 1844, which is when she took the name Harriet.7 At this point, Tubman hired herself and her team of oxen out to plow fields and haul timber for the […]
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