Minty Ross

By Renadk
  • date of birth

  • married a free black man named John Tubman

  • successfully escaped

  • The dynamics of escaping slavery changed because of the Fugitive Slave Law.

  • she received a warning that her niece Kessiah was going to be sold with her two young children.

  • Tubman guided a group of 11 fugitives northward, the party stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

  • Tubman was introduced to John Brown. He advocated the use of violence to disrupt and destroy the institution of slavery.

  • Harriet married Nelson Davis

  • Harriet and Nelson adopted a baby girl named Gerti.

  • She donated land to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Auburn.

  • The Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged opened.

  • date of death

  • U.S. Treasury Department announced that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 bill.