Saturday, November 30, 2019
Endow Me (The Invitation) - Rev. James Moore
Proverbs 15:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.What You Never Knew About Harriet Tubman
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
In December 1851, Tubman guided an unidentified group of 11 fugitives, possibly including the Bowleys and several others she had helped rescue earlier, northward. There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.[64]
In his third autobiography, Douglass wrote: "On one occasion I had eleven fugitives at the same time under my roof, and it was necessary for them to remain with me until I could collect sufficient money to get them on to Canada.
It was the largest number I ever had at any one time, and I had some difficulty in providing so many with food and shelter. ... "[65] The number of travelers and the time of the visit make it likely that this was Tubman's group.[64]
Douglass and Tubman admired one another greatly as they both struggled against slavery. When an early biography of Tubman was being prepared in 1868, Douglass wrote a letter to honor her. He compared his own efforts with hers, writing:
The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. ... The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.[66]
During her second trip, Araminta recovered her brother Moses and two unidentified men
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
The next spring she returned to Maryland to help guide away other family members. During her second trip, she recovered her brother Moses and two unidentified men.[59]
Tubman likely worked with abolitionist Thomas Garrett, a Quaker working in Wilmington, Delaware.[60]
Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that with each trip to Maryland, she became more confident.[59][61]
In the fall of 1851, Tubman returned to Dorchester County for the first time since her escape, this time to find her husband John.
She saved money from various jobs, purchased a suit for him, and made her way south. Meanwhile, John had married another woman named Caroline. Tubman sent word that he should join her, but he insisted that he was happy where he was.
Tubman at first prepared to storm their house and make a scene, but then decided he was not worth the trouble. Suppressing her anger, she found some slaves who wanted to escape and led them to Philadelphia.[62]
John and Caroline raised a family together, until he was killed 16 years later in a roadside argument with a white man named Robert Vincent.[63]
Harriet Tubman Mini Documentary
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]
Tubman had to travel by night, guided by the North Star
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822-1913
A journey of nearly 90 miles (145 kilometers) by foot would have taken between five days and three weeks.[50]
Tubman had to travel by night, guided by the North Star and trying to avoid slave catchers eager to collect rewards for fugitive slaves.[51]
The "conductors" in the Underground Railroad used deceptions for protection. At an early stop, the lady of the house instructed Tubman to sweep the yard so as to seem to be working for the family.
When night fell, the family hid her in a cart and took her to the next friendly house.[52]
Given her familiarity with the woods and marshes of the region, Tubman likely hid in these locales during the day.[49]
Particulars of her first journey remain shrouded in secrecy; because other fugitive slaves used the routes, Tubman did not discuss them until later in life.[53]
She crossed into Pennsylvania with a feeling of relief and awe, and recalled the experience years later:
When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.[47]
"Moses Of Her People" Araminta Ross Helped Others Gain Their FREEDOM
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 -- 1913
Soon afterward, Tubman escaped again, this time without her brothers.[46] She tried to send word of her plans beforehand to her mother. She sang a coded song to Mary, a trusted fellow slave, that was a farewell. "I'll meet you in the morning", she intoned, "I'm bound for the promised land."[47]
While her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad. This informal but well-organized system was composed of free and enslaved blacks, white abolitionists, and other activists.
Most prominent among the latter in Maryland at the time were members of the Religious Society of Friends, often called Quakers.[46]
The Preston area near Poplar Neck contained a substantial Quaker community and was probably an important first stop during Tubman's escape.[48]
From there, she probably took a common route for fleeing slaves – northeast along the Choptank River, through Delaware and then north into Pennsylvania.[49]
American Hero and Icon of FREEDOM --- Mrs. Harriet Tubman a.k.a. Araminta "Minty" Ross
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 - 1913
Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery on
September 17, 1849. Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson
(the son of her father's former owner), who owned a large plantation in
an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County;
it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well.
Because the
slaves were hired out to another household, Eliza Brodess probably did
not recognize their absence as an escape attempt for some time. Two
weeks later, she posted a runaway notice in the Cambridge Democrat, offering a reward of up to $100 for each slave returned.[44]
Once they had left, Tubman's brothers had second thoughts. Ben may have
just become a father. The two men went back, forcing Tubman to return
with them.[45]
Araminta "Minty" Ross Prayed To GOD
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 -- 1913
Escape from slavery
In 1849, Tubman became ill again, which diminished her value as a slave. Edward Brodess tried to sell her, but could not find a buyer.[36]Angry at him for trying to sell her and for continuing to enslave her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways.[37]
She said later: "I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me."
When it appeared as though a sale was being concluded, "I changed my prayer", she said.
"First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way.'"[38]
A week later, Brodess died, and Tubman expressed regret for her earlier sentiments.[39]
As in many estate settlements, Brodess's death increased the likelihood that Tubman would be sold and her family broken apart.[40] His widow, Eliza, began working to sell the family's slaves.[41]
Tubman refused to wait for the Brodess family to decide her fate, despite her husband's efforts to dissuade her.[42]
"[T]here was one of two things I had a right to", she explained later, "liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other".[43]
Tubman suffered a severe head injury as an adolescent.
Araminta Ross
1822 -- 1913
Bleeding and unconscious, she was returned to her owner's house and laid on the seat of a loom, where she remained without medical care for two days.[23]
After this incident, Tubman frequently experienced extremely painful headaches.[24] She also began having seizures and would seemingly fall unconscious, although she claimed to be aware of her surroundings while appearing to be asleep.
This condition remained with her for the rest of her life; Larson suggests she may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as a result of the injury.[25][26]
After her injury, Tubman began experiencing visions and vivid dreams, which she interpreted as revelations from God.
These spiritual experiences had a profound effect on Tubman's personality and she acquired a passionate faith in God.[27]
Although Tubman was illiterate, she was told Bible stories by her mother and likely attended a Methodist church with her family.[28][29]
She rejected the teachings of the New Testament that urged slaves to be obedient, and found guidance in the Old Testament tales of deliverance. This religious perspective informed her actions throughout her life.[30]
5 Things You Probably Didn't Learn In School About Harriet Tubman
Araminta Ross
1822-- 1913
Tubman's mother was assigned to "the big house"[15][16] and had scarce time for her family; consequently, as a child Tubman took care of a younger brother and baby, as was typical in large families.[17]
When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan".
Tubman was ordered to care for the baby and rock its cradle as it slept; when it woke up and cried, she was whipped. She later recounted a particular day when she was lashed five times before breakfast.
She carried the scars for the rest of her life.[18] She found ways to resist, such as running away for five days,[19] wearing layers of clothing as protection against beatings, and fighting back.[20]
As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook. She had to check the muskrat traps in nearby marshes, even after contracting measles.
She became so ill that Cook sent her back to Brodess, where her mother nursed her back to health. Brodess then hired her out again.
As she grew older and stronger, she was assigned to field and forest work, driving oxen, plowing, and hauling logs.[22]
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]
Araminta "Minty" Ross - aka - Harriet Tubman - Born in Dorchester County, Maryland
Araminta "Minty" Ross
1822 -1913
Tubman was born Araminta "Minty" Ross to enslaved parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Rit was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess (and later her son Edward). Ben was held by Anthony Thompson, who became Mary Brodess's second husband, and who ran a large plantation near the Blackwater River in the Madison area of Dorchester County, Maryland.
Modesty, Tubman's maternal grandmother, arrived in the United States on a slave ship from Africa; no information is available about her other ancestors.[6] As a child, Tubman was told that she seemed like an Ashanti person because of her character traits, though no evidence exists to confirm or deny this lineage.[7]
Her mother Rit (who may have had a white father)[7][8] was a cook for the Brodess family.[4] Her father Ben was a skilled woodsman who managed the timber work on Thompson's plantation.[7] They married around 1808 and, according to court records, had nine children together: Linah, Mariah Ritty, Soph, Robert, Minty (Harriet), Ben, Rachel, Henry, and Moses.[9]
Friday, November 29, 2019
One Thing That I Desire ----By Marvin Sapp
Psalm 27:4
King James Version
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Someone Willing To Take a Stand, No Matter The Risk ----That's Harriet Tubman
Born Araminta Ross
March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913
Around 1844, she married a free black man named John Tubman.[33] Although little is known about him or their time together, the union was complicated because of her slave status. The mother's status dictated that of children, and any children born to Harriet and John would be enslaved.
Such blended marriages – free people of color marrying enslaved people – were not uncommon on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where by this time, half the black population was free. Most African-American families had both free and enslaved members. Larson suggests that they might have planned to buy Tubman's freedom.[34]
Tubman changed her name from Araminta to Harriet soon after her marriage, though the exact timing is unclear. Larson suggests this happened right after the wedding,[33] and Clinton suggests that it coincided with Tubman's plans to escape from slavery.[35] She adopted her mother's name, possibly as part of a religious conversion, or to honor another relative.[33]
10 Things To Know About Harriet Tubman --- Born Araminta Ross
March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913
Anthony Thompson promised to manumit
Tubman's father at the age of 45. After Thompson died, his son followed
through with that promise in 1840. Tubman's father continued working as
a timber estimator and foreman for the Thompson family.[31]
Several years later, Tubman contacted a white attorney and paid him
five dollars to investigate her mother's legal status. The lawyer
discovered that a former owner had issued instructions that Tubman's
mother, Rit, like her husband, would be manumitted at the age of 45.
The
record showed that a similar provision would apply to Rit's children,
and that any children born after she reached 45 years of age were
legally free, but the Pattison and Brodess families ignored this
stipulation when they inherited the slaves. Challenging it legally was
an impossible task for Tubman.[32]
The Breaktaking Courage of Araminta Ross aka Harriet Tubman
March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913
In 1849, Tubman became ill again, which diminished her value as a
slave. Edward Brodess tried to sell her, but could not find a buyer.[36]
Angry at him for trying to sell her and for continuing to enslave her
relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him
change his ways.[37]
She said later: "I prayed all night long for my master till the first
of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and
trying to sell me."
When it appeared as though a sale was being
concluded, "I changed my prayer", she said. "First of March I began to
pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart,
kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way.'"[38]
His widow, Eliza, began working to sell the family's slaves.[41] Tubman refused to wait for the Brodess family to decide her fate, despite her husband's efforts to dissuade her.[42]
"[T]here was one of two things I had a right to", she explained later, "liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other".[43]
Who is Araminta Ross?
Harriet Tubman
Born Araminta Ross
1822--1913
After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work. Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.
When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves.
After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After her death in 1913, she became an icon of courage and freedom.
Most Famous Railroad Conductor of All Time -----Harriet Tubman
Born Araminta Ross
March 1822[1] – March 10, 1913
She was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery,
Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue
approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage.
The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious.
Monday, November 25, 2019
The Harriet Tubman Story of Saving Many Lives From Slavery
Tubman's mother was assigned to "the big house"[15] and had scarce time for her family; consequently, as a child Tubman took care of a younger brother and baby, as was typical in large families.
When she was five or six years old, Brodess hired her out as a nursemaid to a woman named "Miss Susan".
Tubman was ordered to care for the baby and rock its cradle as it slept; when it woke up and cried, she was whipped. She later recounted a particular day when she was lashed five times before breakfast.
She carried the scars for the rest of her life.[18] She found ways to resist, such as running away for five days, wearing layers of clothing as protection against beatings, and fighting back.
As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook. She had to check the muskrat traps in nearby marshes, even after contracting measles.
She became so ill that Cook sent her back to Brodess, where her mother nursed her back to health. Brodess then hired her out again.
She spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to "the boy on the Swanee River", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song "Old Folks at Home".[21]
As she grew older and stronger, she was assigned to field and forest work, driving oxen, plowing, and hauling logs.
Born Araminta Ross -- 1822 – March 10, 1913
At the turn of the 20th century, Tubman became heavily involved with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn.
In 1903, she donated a parcel of real estate she owned to the church, under the instruction that it be made into a home for "aged and indigent colored people".
The home did not open for another five years, and Tubman was dismayed when the church ordered residents to pay a $100 entrance fee. She said: "[T]hey make a rule that nobody should come in without they have a hundred dollars. Now I wanted to make a rule that nobody should come in unless they didn't have no money at all."
She was frustrated by the new rule, but was the guest of honor nonetheless when the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged celebrated its opening on June 23, 1908.[164]
The National Park Service recently made Harreit Tubman's Property a National Park About Her Legacy
Other honors and commemorations
Tubman is commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20.The calendar of saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America remembers Tubman and Sojurner Truth on March 10. Since 2003, the state of New York has also commemorated Tubman on March 10, although the day is not a legal holiday.
Numerous structures, organizations, and other entities have been named in Tubman's honor. These include dozens of schools, streets and highways in several states,[213] and various church groups, social organizations, and government agencies.
In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship ever named for a black woman.[215] An asteroid, (241528) Tubman, was named after her in 2014.
A section of the Wyman Park Dell in Baltimore, Maryland was renamed Harriet Tubman Grove in March 2018; the grove was previously the site of two statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, both of which were among four statues removed from the park in August 2017.
Tubman was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973,[218] and into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1985.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Araminta Ross
Harriet Tubman
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Tubman c. 1885
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| Born |
Araminta Ross
c. March 1822[1] |
| Died | March 10, 1913 (aged 90–91)
Auburn, New York, U.S.
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| Resting place | Fort Hill Cemetery Auburn, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Auburn, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Minty, Moses |
| Occupation | Civil War scout, spy, nurse, suffragist, civil rights activist |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Children | Gertie (adopted) |
| Parent(s) |
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| Relatives |
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