Araminta changed her name to her Mother's first name. Her Mother's first name is Harriet.

 Araminta "Minty" Ross

 1822---1913

 Rit, short for Harriet is Araminta's Mother.

Later on in life, Araminta changed her name to her Mother's first name Harriet.

Rit struggled to keep her family together as slavery threatened to tear it apart. Edward Brodess sold three of her daughters (Linah, Mariah Ritty, and Soph), separating them from the family forever.^[10] 

When a trader from Georgia approached Brodess about buying Rit's youngest son, Moses, she hid him for a month, aided by other slaves and free blacks in the community.^[11] At one point she confronted her owner about the sale.^[12] 

 Finally, Brodess and "the Georgia man" came toward the slave quarters to seize the child, where Rit told them, "You are after my son; but the first man that comes into my house, I will split his head open."^[12] 

Brodess backed away and abandoned the sale.^[13] Tubman's biographers agree that stories told about this event within the family influenced her belief in the possibilities of resistance.^[13][14]