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]
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