Araminta Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester County in Montgomery, Alabama. The year that she was born is unknown, but she was born somewhere in between 1820-1825. Ross had been born into a family of black slaves. Both of her parents were slaves. At the young age of five, she was sent to the “big house” to start her job, but she was too “weak” and “dumb” and came home with 15 lashings on her neck(she still has the marks). She still got sent there, and the process repeated, again and again. Until finally at age seven she started working in the field.

Araminta Harriet Ross (Harriet Tubman) was born to Harriet Greene and Ben Ross. She was their fifth, out of nine, child. Araminta, also known as “Minty” had four sisters: Mariah Ritty Ross, Soph Ross, Linah Ross, and Rachel Ross. She also had four brothers: Moses Ross, Ben Ross, Robert Ross, and Henry Ross. After Araminta escaped to freedom, she came back to escort her parents and siblings to the North so that they could taste the same freedom that she had. She also leads her cousin Rebecca to freedom. …show more content…
After she reached the free states, she decided to change her name to honor her mother, and she changed her last name to match her first husband, John Tubman. Over the course of ten years, Tubman made at least 19 trips to guide over 300 slaves to the North, where they could live as free men and women. Even after escorting 300 slaves, Tubman once said that she would have guided a thousand more slaves, if only she knew that they were actually slaves. Unlike many railway conductors can say, Tubman had said, “I have been the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years and I can say what most conductors can’t: I never ran my train off the track, and I have never lost a