Harriet Tubman was born a slave in 1820 or 1821 in Bucktown, Maryland, and was one of elevenchildren born to Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. In the summer of 1849 she escaped the bonds of slavery, traveling by night through Maryland and Delaware to Philadelphia. From there she continued to New York and finally up into Canada. "I had reasoned this out in my mind," she said. There was one of two things I had a right to -- liberty or death. If I could not have one, I could have the other, for no man should take me alive. I shall fight for my liberty and when the time comes for me to go, the Lord will let them kill me."
Her freedom meant little to her when every wind from the South was charged with the plaintive cries of her oppressed brethren for deliverance. Her freedom was a mockery to her as long as she could hear the crack of the overseers whip, the clank of slave chains.
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