*At the age of 12 Harriet was seriously injured by a blow to the head inflicted by an overseer for refusing to help restrain a young man who was trying to escape. She never recovered and experienced seizures or "spells" for the rest of her life.

*She escaped to Philadelphia in 1849; returned the next year to help guide away her family members. As an official conductor on the Underground Railroad she helped guide fugitives to Canada. 

*For the next decade Tubman returned to Md.'s Eastern Shore, rescuing some 300 slaves, many of whom settled in Canada. She became known as the "Moses of her people."

*During the Civil War she enlisted in the Union army. She served as a nurse, a spy and a scout and fought against the Confederacy in Virginia and South Carolina.

*In 1857 she settled in Auburn, New York joining a community of sympathetic Quakers and other abolitionists.  Her brick house was provided to her by her friend, Senator William Seward. She met with John Brown whose course of action at Harpers Ferry she supported.

*After the war she returned to Auburn and, in 1869, married Nelson Davis; they spent the next 20 years together.

*A strong supporter of women's suffrage, Harriet worked alongside Susan B. Anthony and, in 1896 was the keynote speaker at the first meeting of the National Association of Colored Women. 

 

*At the end of her life she became heavily involved with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn and lived in a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped found years earlier. Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913.