Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
Notice in the Cambridge Democrat
newspaper offering a $100 reward (the equivalent of $3,000 in 2016
currency) for capture of each of the escaped slaves "Minty" (Harriet
Tubman) and her brothers Henry and Ben
Nicknamed "Moses"
Harriet Ross Tubman
After reaching Philadelphia, Tubman thought of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "[M]y father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were [in Maryland]. But I was free, and they should be free."[54]
She worked odd jobs and saved money.[55] The U.S. Congress meanwhile passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which heavily punished abetting escape and forced law enforcement officials – even in states that had outlawed slavery – to assist in their capture.
The law increased risks for escaped slaves, more of whom therefore sought refuge in Southern Ontario (then part of the United Province of Canada) which, as part of the British Empire, had abolished slavery.[56]
Racial tensions were also increasing in Philadelphia as waves of poor Irish immigrants competed with free blacks for work.[57]
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