Biography harriet tubman video

HARRIET TUBMAN:I'm going to tell you something about my life.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the United States of America in the year

HARRIET TUBMAN:My story starts when I was just a child.

HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born into a family of slaves.

HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were from Africa,

HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes and brought to America on a ship, to work for a rich landowner.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a slave meant that we were owned by our master and he got to decide everything we did.

And most of what we did was working in his cotton fields.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'The seasons turned, one into the next, and every year it was the same.

HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed the field to sow the seed, to pick the cotton.

Then hoed the field to sow the seed to pick the cotton. Over and over. Till our hands were raw, our backs ached, our spirits worn down by the endless toil.

HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age